Drug Abuse

Traumas can lead to drug abuse
HUNTINGTON — Nobody wakes up and says, "My goal is to get addicted to drugs or alcohol today," said Karen Yost, president and CEO of Prestera Center. Substance abuse is an extremely complex issue with a variety of different beginnings for different …
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Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use in US The Drug War
WASHINGTON, D.C. – From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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