Drug Abuse

Drug Addiction: Teenage drug abusers fight addiction, seek rehab – China Daily
CHENGDU – Eji Lhaze was 14 when he first took “ice”, thinking it was no different from cigarettes. “I was curious how it tasted, because my pals seemed to enjoy every bit of it and sleep like babies after a dose,” he said. “So I just tried a sip.” It was …
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Drug Addiction: Prescription drug registry stops most addicts from doctor-shopping – Tulsa World
OKLAHOMA CITY – Lea Gray remembers the first time she got high. She was 15. She swallowed a fat, white, doctor-prescribed Lortab in her bathroom at home. Then, while sipping out of the water fountain at school, life changed. “It was like a wave from the …
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Drug Addiction: Raynham mom: daughter’s drug addiction “a nightmare” – Abington Mariner
First, she noticed the Percocet tablets prescribed to her teenage daughter after she had sprained her ankle. Then, she noticed the sudden change in her daughter’s attitude. Mary O’Malley knew something evil had taken hold of her daughter’s life …
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Drug Addiction: Addicted to sex, drugs: Malaysian doctor voices remorse in Sydney court
MELBOURNE: A Malaysian neurosurgeon told a Sydney court that he realised his drug and sex addiction was “spiralling out of control” when a 22-year-old prostitute, Victoria McIntyre, died from cocaine overdose in his apartment.
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Drug Addiction: Teen Drug Use At Epidemic Levels; Smoking Is Main Gateway
Almost a quarter of all youth that begin smoking, drinking or using drugs of any kind before the age of 18 go on to become severely addicted to some sort of drug in adulthood according to a new study released this week by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA). As a matter of fact, 90% of drug addictions begin in high school. Susan Foster, senior investigator of the study …
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