Drug Addiction: Experts Call for National Strategy to Fight Prescription Drug Addiction – Winnipeg Free Press

Drug Addiction: Experts call for national strategy to fight prescription drug addiction – Winnipeg Free Press

Experts call for national strategy to fight prescription drug addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO – Addiction experts are applauding new provincial restrictions on OxyContin and the drug replacing it, but say Canada needs a national strategy to tackle widespread abuse of prescription painkillers. Ontario's decision last week to remove

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Drug Addiction: ‘Severe’ drug addict jailed after busts – Stuff.co.nz

'Severe' drug addict jailed after busts
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Defence counsel Tim Fournier said Hamish Houghton Chisholm, 33, had been given an opportunity, but did not capitalise on it because of his severe drug addiction. He was arrested in a series of raids on clandestine laboratories manufacturing the drug P

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Drug Addiction: Narconon East US Long Term Drug Rehab Mourns the Loss of Pop Icon Whitney Houston – PR Web (press release)

Narconon East US Long Term Drug Rehab Mourns the Loss of Pop Icon Whitney Houston
PR Web (press release)
This is so much the case that the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now calls prescription drug overdoses an American epidemic. According to the CDC and the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 5 million Americans misused prescription

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Drug Addiction: Targeting prescription abuse – Philadelphia Inquirer

Targeting prescription abuse
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Michael A. Fuoco With prescription drug addiction in the United States at an all-time high, a Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to identify and help addicts through a database that would track use of medications. State Rep.

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Drug Addiction: Ohio launches ‘Don’t Get Me Started’ campaign – SalemNews.net

Ohio launches 'Don't Get Me Started' campaign
SalemNews.net
LISBON – Continuing the state's efforts to address the growing problem of prescription drug addiction, Orman Hall Director of the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) announced in a recent press release the launch of Don't
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