Drug Abuse

How A Big Drug Company Inadvertently Got Americans Hooked On Heroin
Between 1996 and 2011, the number of people who ended up in substance abuse treatment centers in Suffolk County, where Arielle lives, as a result of heroin jumped 425 percent, according to a 2012 special grand jury report from the county's Supreme …
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Governor Shumlin Headlines Panel On Prescription Drug Abuse
A panel on C-SPAN featured a discussion on states' efforts to combat prescription drug abuse, an issue that took the national stage when Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin devoted January's state of the state address to the problem. The National Governors …
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Painkillers, tranquilizers an increasingly fatal mix
?A 2012 study in the American Journal of Addiction found that the benzodiazepine alprazolam, the generic version of Xanax, contributed to a growing number of drug deaths in West Virginia. It contributed to 17% of such deaths in 2005 and 28% in 2007.
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