Drug Abuse

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Hispanic teens and adults differ significantly when it comes to drug abuse
Sixteen percent of Hispanic teens reported they engaged in the risky behavior of mixing alcohol with abusing prescription drugs (without a prescription), compared to 11 percent for Caucasian teens and 6 percent for African American teens. Ten percent …
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Alpharetta mom educates community on growing teen drug abuse
"Over 80 percent of people with an addiction disorder started using before the age of 18," Kaltenecker said, "but with the right tools, addiction is a treatable disease and recovery is possible, and we want to make people aware of that." For more …
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Percentage of illicit drug use in the past month among 12- to 17-year-olds
Annual averages based on National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2011 and 2012. Illicit Drugs include marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or prescription-type psychotherapeutics used nonmedically, …
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Addiction is the quiet killer on our streets
Stu Walton remembers the little girl who loved animals and loved to sing, who grew up and worked hard to get Jarrett Barrios elected to the Legislature, the doting daughter who stumbled into addiction. Don't get Stu Walton wrong. He wasn't and isn't …
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What Is Addiction?
As the death of the actor Philip Seymour Hoffman and the rise of overdoses in New England indicate, heroin continues to be a plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem.
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Addiction – What Is an Addiction – http://addictions.ko.mk Clear, concise definition of addictions, including substance and behavioral addictions. Includes examples of addictive behaviors and …

Question by logo: why is weed “so bad”?
i know many users on here always have nothing but negative to say about this plant, when in reality all it does is open the mind of the user.

i just want to know why so many who have never tried it can have such strong opinions

Best answer:

Answer by Leesha
I’ve never tried it but I don’t think it’s that big of a deal. The government just doesn’t want to make it legal because they’d stop getting money for it. They are the number one reason for all of the problems we have with drugs.

Answer by inquisative
Because it burns your brain cells out and you cant get those back srry

Walsh reacts to rise in heroin overdoses
Speaking at the district police station in South Boston, a community hard-hit by opiate addiction, Walsh announced a series of community-based workshops, and called for all first responders to carry Narcan, a spray mist medication used to reverse …
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Question by Haylie B: Beat a drug addiction?
I am a 24 year old female and I go out every weekend to trance events and also in my local town.

When I go out I take a lot of drugs. Cocaine mostly, pills, MDMA, ketamine, speed, methadrone etc.

I am not ‘addicted’ to any particular drugs, in the week I can take it or leave it but at the weekend I feel like I NEED to take something in order to have a good time. Especially at trance events where I know I’ll be dancing for 7-8hours and all my friends will be on pills.

I want to stop doing drugs full stop but don’t want to go to my GP and ‘talking to Frank’ just isn’t going to cut it. I know they will just tell me the harm I’m causing myself (which will not work).    Read more...

Dr Rick Sponaugle stopped Todd’s alcoholism after 32 years and 44 rehabs before Florida Detox – http://floridadetox.com – Patient Testimony – Todd Noble Testimony – Drug Addiction Treatment Center – Rapid Detox Addiction Treatment.

Bills Would Revise Minimum Mandatory Sentences for Small Amounts of …
Bipartisan bills moving through the Florida Legislature would revise minimum mandatory drug sentences for people carrying small amounts of oxycodone and hydrocodone. The prescription narcotics are prescribed by doctors to treat pain, but they are also …
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Marijuana backers hit a political chord
'If you present yourself as counterculture, you'll be treated as counterculture. I'm a preppy New … In October, nearly 60 percent of Americans said the drug should be legalized, the first time that a clear majority felt that way in a Gallup Poll. It …
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Percentage of illicit drug use in the past month among 12- to 17-year-olds – Boston Globe

Percentage of illicit drug use in the past month among 12- to 17-year-olds Boston Globe Annual averages based on National Survey on Drug Use and Health from 2011 and 2012. Illicit Drugs include marijuana/hashish, cocaine (including crack), heroin, hallucinogens, inhalants, or prescription-type psychotherapeutics used nonmedically, … and more »

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

Abusing prescription drugs – Enid News & Eagle

Abusing prescription drugs Enid News & Eagle The statistics, provided to Oklahoma Watch in response to an open records request, also show many medical professionals do not routinely check the PMP's online database before writing or refilling scripts. Under current law, they are not required to do …

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News