Drug Abuse

Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
And those statistics lag behind heroin's resurgence over the last few years, as crackdowns on pill mills have made painkillers harder to get and new formulations have made them harder to abuse. Painkillers remain a far larger problem, but … The son …
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Teen Pregnancy Rates Much Higher for Girls With Serious Mental Illness: Study
The study doesn't examine statistics from the United States. But study lead author Dr. Simone … Adolescents with mental illness are also more likely to abuse substances, which increases the likelihood of risky sexual behavior." Study lead author …
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