Pawnshops Profiting as Desperate Addicts Trade Heirlooms for Highs
Pawnshops profiting as desperate addicts trade heirlooms for highs
Addicts, who often enter the drug world by way of the family medicine cabinet, where prescription opiate painkillers are stored, soon find their way to the bedroom jewelry box for family treasures or to the garage for a set of expensive tools …
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Overdosed: Addicts easily game a system with fraudulent prescriptions/Video
Now 32 and in recovery, he is articulate and clean-shaven with dark, gelled hair and sunglasses that dangle from the collar of his button-down sports shirt. The son of a middle-class family from the Boston suburbs, he is a … By law, anyone in Rhode …
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Coming Soon to a Neighborhood Near You: Adderall Abuse
Indeed, following an outbreak of street use during the 1960s, the DEA made Ritalin and other stimulants Schedule II in 1972, the tightest form of control for a prescription drug,. Amphetamine addiction is just like addiction to "crank" … Vicodin or …
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