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Experts: Officials Missed Signs of Prescription Drug Crackdown’s Effect on Heroin Use

Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
Success in closing “pill mills” helped fuel rising heroin use, and experts say government missed warning signs. Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

Parents in the Dark
PLYMOUTH, Minn., March 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As youth drug and alcohol abuse continues to grow, many parents say they are uninformed — and largely unconcerned — about the threat to their children. So finds a new nationwide survey commissioned by the Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the nation's largest nonprofit addiction treatment provider. "These startling findings suggest that … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

Drug Rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Orange County CA at Sober Living by the Sea


 

Drug Rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Orange County CA at Sober Living by the Sea – Drug Rehab and Alcoholism Treatment Orange County CA at Sober Living by the Sea Group Therapy for drug and alcohol counseling can be found at . 449 Recovery,…

 

Rethinking Rehab During a New Era of Opiate Addiction
For example, a 2010 study of opiate addiction found a relapse rate of 91 percent, 59 percent in the first week out of residential addiction treatment. The recent drug overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who reportedly had been sober for many …
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'Not in my backyard' attitude doesn't work with drug addiction
The cost to treat one Maine heroin addict in an outpatient, medication-based treatment center with frequent random drug testing is approximately $ 3,000 per year, while incarceration costs more than $ 50,000 per year. Even if one wants to ignore the …
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Drug Firms Settle With Montana for $5.9M

Drug firms settle with Montana for .9M
Subsidiaries of Johnson & Johnson have agreed to pay $ 5.9 million to settle a lawsuit with Montana over how an anti-psychotic drug was marketed, state Attorney General Tim Fox said Thursday. The settlement … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

DRUGS & CHILDREN: Parents 'under-concerned, overly-confident'
Research has shown parental involvement is critical to preventing drug and alcohol abuse in children, but "startling findings" from a Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation survey show many parents are largely unconcerned about the threat of drug abuse to their children and most admit they wouldn't know where to get help. Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

Press Release
PLYMOUTH Minn. March 6 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As youth drug and alcohol abuse continues to grow many parents say they are uninformed — and largely unconcerned — about the threat to their children. Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Letters: Drug Abuse Starts With the Individual – Los Angeles Times

Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual – Los Angeles Times

Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
Los Angeles Times
The article identifies doctors as the primary source of narcotic painkillers for chronic abusers and says a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study challenges the belief that the abuse epidemic is caused largely by users getting drugs from

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DRUGS & CHILDREN: Parents ‘under-concerned, overly-confident’ – FOX 9 News

DRUGS & CHILDREN: Parents 'under-concerned, overly-confident'
FOX 9 News
Research has shown parental involvement is critical to preventing drug and alcohol abuse in children, but "startling findings" from a Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation survey show many parents are largely unconcerned about the threat of drug abuse to
Hazelden Study: Parents in the Dark about Kids' Drug ProblemsKSTP.com
Parents in the DarkPharmiWeb.com (press release)

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Seceding From the States?

Question by jpc8015: Seceding from the States?
Did anybody hear about the Lakota Indian Tribe wanting to disolve their treaties with the federal government and set up their own country? Is this a good idea for them? How would they manage without federal aid for everything from “cultural centers” to drug and alcohol rehabilitation? At some point would we need to go and forcibly take their land back from them in order to save them from themselves? What would the consequences be, could we then take away their status as a soveirgn nation and not give them treaties?

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Answer by Perplexed Bob
Well, considering the living conditions on reservations, I don’t see how they were be losing much if they declared their own country.

Answer by Fancy That
technically, all Native tribes are considered their own nation. So the US has many nations with in the nation.

Okla. DA to Hold Seminar on Student Drug Abuse – News on 6

Okla. DA to hold seminar on student drug abuse – News On 6

Okla. DA to hold seminar on student drug abuse
News On 6
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) – Residents who live in several northeast Oklahoma counties can attend a seminar next week focused on current trends in drug and alcohol abuse among students. The talk is scheduled for March 13 at Pryor High School.

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