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Prescription Drug Abuse in the News

Prescription Drug Abuse: [Update] Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage Cause of Death: Heart Disease
An autopsy report released Thursday, revealed that former wrestler “Macho Man” Randy Savage died from heart disease, not the car crash he was involved in earlier this May. In the official report, Randy Poffo – the non-stage name of the super-star wrestler/actor – had an enlarged heart with severe atherosclerosis of his coronary arteries. According […] [Update] Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage Cause of …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Medical marijuana bill eyed
Wednesday June 29, 2011 BOSTON — Massachusetts lawmakers are considering a bill that would legalize the use of marijuana to ease symptoms of chronic and debilitating illnesses and regulate the centers that distribute the drug.
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Question by well_arent_we_special: Shouldn’t METH ADDICTS and DEALERS face harsher penalities for their troubles ? They cause many problems.
Meth, as well as other drugs, is slowly destroying our great country. Too cheaply made, easily distributed, and many people are HOOKED. Jail terms are light, rehabs often fail (or are not available), and the merry-go-round just keeps on going round and round. The Drug Addiction “trip” just never seems to end for many, until they die or become “vegetables” for life.

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Answer by laurieanne72
YES, Meth dealers should be incarcerated FOR LIFE!! Meth has RUINED many young, promising lives:(

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Drug Addiction: Methamphetamine, Getting stuck between a rock and a hard spot
From the very first use methamphetamine takes a toll on the human body.
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Causes of Drug Abuse: The Chief Cause of Post-Recovery Alcoholic Depression – Cape Cod Today
He has fully recovered from clinically diagnosed depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, smoking, obesity, high cholesterol, diabetes, arthritis, colitis, diverticulitis, alcoholism and drug abuse as well as sugar addiction and overeating.
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Causes Of Drug Abuse: Behind the global scourge of child labour
Bleak future:Two out of three child labourers are engaged in agriculture and allied activities; the rest are in informal and unorganised sectors. Here, two children work in a brick kiln in Khammam district of Andhra Pradesh.
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Causes Of Drug Abuse: Senior Power: This Will Be on the Final …
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day is being observed today, Wednesday, June 15, 2011. This week’s Senior Power column is the second of two devoted to this subject. Possibly, by the time you read it, World Elder Abuse Awareness Day will have come and gone without great notice.
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse by youth cause for concern in Kalamazoo County – MLive.com
In Kalamazoo County, 13 percent of seventh-graders admitted to recent prescription painkiller abuse in the 2010 Michigan Profile for Healthy Youth survey. Oxycontin and codeine were listed among the favorites for youths to steal from medicine cabinets of …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Prescription drug-related suicide attempts up 49 percent among older women – ksl.com
SALT LAKE CITY — Abuse of narcotic pain relievers, insomnia drugs and anxiety drugs is landing a growing … appointments that they don’t have time to delve into the underlying causes of poor sleep habits, anxiety or depression. Michael Dulle, clinical …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: America’s fatal addiction to prescription drugs | David Kloth – Eureka! Science News
prescription drug abuse – abuse of medications which are legal for distribution – has become a national epidemic. Prescription drugs now surpass motor vehicle accidents as the No 1 cause of accidental death in almost half the states in this country.
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