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UTMB awarded .6 million grant to establish Translational Addiction Sciences …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded a five-year, $ 6.6 million grant to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to establish the Translational Addiction Sciences Center. The center will investigate the mechanisms underlying …
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Heroin Addiction: Parents Hear from Parents
Shortly after his death the couple co-founded Drug Crisis in Our Backyard and now give programs across Westchester and Putnam Counties, shedding light on their family's tragic experience and the issues surrounding drug addiction. Susan Salomone …
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HAYC3 panel includes firsthand account of drug addiction
The panel featured Doug Davidson, who spoke of his personal experiences battling with opiate and other drug addiction. He said it is likely that everyone knows somebody who is a drug addict or alcoholic. He said it's important to understand how …
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State expert says drug addiction at epidemic level
Gary Tennis, secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs, said drug addiction has reached epidemic proportions. One out of every four families … Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Heroin addicts face barriers to treatment
Of the 23.1 million Americans who needed treatment for drugs or alcohol in 2012, only 2.5 million people received aid at a specialty facility, according to the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Heroin addicts are a …
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Pittsburgh PA Alcohol Drug Rehab Launches Expanded Residential Treatment Plan
The need for a way to leave drug addiction in a person's past continues to grow, and there really is a way to find freedom from it all. For a free consultation, call 412-265-2496. (PRWeb April 26, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Pittsburgh-PA-drug-rehab/drug-treatment-alcohol/prweb11782872.htm Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Allentown PA Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces New Intervention Program
Drug addiction is simply too much for many people that watch someone they care about slip into the abyss of drugs. They do have somewhere to get immediate help, though. For a no-cost consultation, call 610-628-9169. (PRWeb April 26, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Allentown-PA-drug-rehab/drug-treatment-alcohol/prweb11782891.htm Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

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Question by feefee: Research Paper about Drugs….?
So I have to write a research paper about drugs: its effect on people, facts about it, and real life stories.
I need some websites to cite like : http://www.drugfree.org
I want websites that talk about how many people are affected by drugs worldwide/or in America ( which would be facts about it).
Any website that would show the effects of it or anything interesting about drugs like real life stories.
Please give me links, thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by clUeLesSpErSoN!
how about interviewing people and there experirences with drugs. Get there side of the story.

Answer by pj
I would check out the sites listed at this subject directory (ipl2.org I typed in the search box “drug addiction” http://www.ipl.org/IPL/Finding?Key=drug+addiction

The Addiction Recovery site includes a message board with real life stories:
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‘Cannabis not as harmful as alcohol’
Two GPs who treat young people for drug addiction believe cannabis use should be decriminalised for both recreational and medicinal use and regulated rather than outlawed. Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results