Drug Abuse

Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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Andrea Peyser
Addiction “is a medical disease, not a choice,” Dr. Kim Dennis, CEO of Timberline Knolls, a Florida center that treats problems from eating disorders to drug abuse, wrote on her blog. It was quoted in The Washington Post. “Saying that a person addicted …
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Charleston-area heroin use trending upward?
A drug addict prepares a needle to inject himself with heroin in front of a church in the Skid Row area of Los Angeles. In 2009, North … All three methods deliver the drug to the brain rapidly, which contributes to its health risks and to its high …
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Overcoming Drug Addiction by a Beachcomber Alumni – The Beachcomber offers drug addiction treatment Florida. This video talks about overcoming addiction.