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Drug Addiction: Mental Health, Drug Abuse Agencies to Merge – Chillicothe Gazette
Drug Addiction: Mental health, drug abuse agencies to merge – Chillicothe Gazette
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Mental health, drug abuse agencies to merge
Chillicothe Gazette The move was announced Friday and involves the Ohio Department of Mental Health and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. They will be merged July 1 pending legislative approval. State officials told The Columbus Dispatch layoffs are … Kasich to merge service agencies |
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Drug Addiction: Drug-addicted babies another casualty in prescription drug abuse battle – Chillicothe Gazette
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Drug–addicted babies another casualty in prescription drug abuse battle
Chillicothe Gazette The first national study on babies born with addictions to prescription pain killers was released this past week and revealed soaring and scary statistics. About 3.4 of every 1000 infants born in a hospital in 2009 suffered from some type of drug … |
Teen Drug Abuse Becoming an Epidemic, Must Be Addressed
Causes of Drug Abuse: Teen drug abuse becoming an epidemic, must be addressed
For years, I have been witness to the increasing availability of drugs to teenagers in the U.S. I have gone on the air and in print calling for parents to be more aware of drug abuse and the dangers that can develop from it. Yet, according to reports, teen drug abuse is still on the rise
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Study: Teens brains' may predispose them to drug abuse, impulsive behavior
Study of impulsivity in teens' brains suggests ADHD may not be a risk factor for drug abuse after all
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Parental role, key to preventing drug abuse
According to the 'Handbook of Drug Abuse Information – 2011' released by the National Dangerous Drug Control Board recently the incidence of young people falling victim to drug use is on the rise.
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Drug Abuse – Can You Really Stop It?
Drug abuse is rampant and the drug of choice is changing. The onslaught of abuse of prescription drugs is being done by teens and young adults by the thousands, if not millions.
So, can this new drug of choice be stopped? Besides taking prescription pills out of medicine cabinets of parents and grandparents, how do you stop the sales from the street venders? Is it the supplier whom we need to stop – or the buyer?
Well, there’s the law of supply and demand. Reduce the demand and the suppliers go elsewhere in search of buyers. But how do we reduce the buyers when the use of these prescription drugs is done in secret?
Does education help? Not completely. There are no gross pictures to demonstrate the effects of abusing prescription drugs – unless you show them a dead body. Because many think they are infallible to having the drugs do anything real bad to them, they don’t heed the warning of don’t take alcohol with prescription drugs, especially pain pills.
Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Use Data Counters Claims of ‘epidemic’ – BurlingtonFreePress.com
Drug Abuse: Prescription drug use data counters claims of ‘epidemic’ – BurlingtonFreePress.com
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Prescription drug use data counters claims of 'epidemic'
BurlingtonFreePress.com Peter Shumlin in his State of the State address in January cited an “epidemic” of prescription drug abuse in Vermont as justification for allowing police to get access without search warrants to a Health Department database that tracks the medicines … Health Dept. data raise questions about drug abuse 'epidemic' in Vermont | The … Vt. lawmakers settle budget; session end in sight Committee seeks prescription database access compromise |
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Drug Abuse: Community prevents drug abuse at take-back event – Belvoir Eagle
Prescription Drug Abuse: Vt. Lawmakers Debate Drug Data Access by Police
Prescription Drug Abuse: Vt. lawmakers debate drug data access by police
Gov. Peter Shumlin in his State of the State address in January cited an "epidemic" of prescription drug abuse in Vermont as justification for allowing police to get access without search warrants …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription drug use data counters claims of 'epidemic'
MONTPELIER — Gov. Peter Shumlin in his State of the State address in January cited an “epidemic” of prescription drug abuse in Vermont as justification for allowing police to get access without search warrants to a Health Department database that tracks the medicines Vermont doctors are prescribing for their patients.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Drug abuse on the rise
Marijuana use among teens is up and prescription drug abuse is also a problem that’s not going away. According to…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Glendale police observe increase in prescription drug and heroin abuse
The monthly event Coffee with a Cop was held April 26 and took a look at the street level affects of pills and heroin.
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Teen Drug Abuse Becoming an Epidemic, Must Be Addressed – FOX News
Causes of Drug Abuse: Teen drug abuse becoming an epidemic, must be addressed – FOX News
deaths from drug overdose and abuse now exceed deaths from motor vehicle accidents in the U.S. The statistics revealed the first time that drugs surpassed car accidents as one of the leading causes of death since the government first began …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Painkiller abuse causes more pain – Chicago Sun-Times
Of course, someone keeps prescribing these drugs and selling them. And consider this: About one in four teens will abuse prescription drugs before they graduate from high school. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Improved Drug Treatment for Prisoners Could Save Billions in Criminal Justice Costs – Newswise
The model accounts for substance abuse as a chronic disease, as well as differences in age, gender, race and ethnicity, and drug use and treatment history. The model also estimates the benefits of treatment throughout an individual’s lifetime and tracks …
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