Drug Abuse

Healthbeat: What parents need to know about teen drug use trends
Chicago suburban parents began to hear news reports about rising heroin use in their neighborhoods in 2011. Parents in some local communities had first-hand experience with this epidemic years before news anchors warned the nation. But what is …
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Law enforcement battles heroin abuse
Heroin is an opioid drug that is synthesized from morphine, a naturally occurring substance extracted from the Asian opium poppy plant, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). The drug can be injected, inhaled, snorted and smoked. As …
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