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How A Big Drug Company Inadvertently Got Americans Hooked On Heroin
Between 1996 and 2011, the number of people who ended up in substance abuse treatment centers in Suffolk County, where Arielle lives, as a result of heroin jumped 425 percent, according to a 2012 special grand jury report from the county's Supreme …
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Governor Shumlin Headlines Panel On Prescription Drug Abuse
A panel on C-SPAN featured a discussion on states' efforts to combat prescription drug abuse, an issue that took the national stage when Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin devoted January's state of the state address to the problem. The National Governors …
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Painkillers, tranquilizers an increasingly fatal mix
?A 2012 study in the American Journal of Addiction found that the benzodiazepine alprazolam, the generic version of Xanax, contributed to a growing number of drug deaths in West Virginia. It contributed to 17% of such deaths in 2005 and 28% in 2007.
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Drug deaths in state hit 10-year high
Drug-related deaths in Connecticut hit their highest point in nearly 10 years last year, according to statistics from the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Drug Abuse Statistics – Yahoo News Search Results

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Drug-related deaths in Connecticut hit their highest point in nearly 10 years last year, according to statistics from the state Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Drug Abuse Statistics – Yahoo News Search Results

Charles Lane: Legalization can't end our trouble with drugs
A new conventional wisdom is on the rise: Drug prohibition is a costly flop. Drug Abuse Statistics – Yahoo News Search Results

Spike In Heroin Use Can Be Traced To Prescription Pads
Kolodny says the statistics are stark. Areas with the highest rates of opioid or heroin addiction are often wealthier areas, where people have more access to medical care. With medical care comes access to doctors — doctors who could write prescriptions.
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Carol Costa: Facing Down the Opioid Abuse Monster
This represents a near tripling of drug deaths since 2009, which are huge statistics for our small state. This should shock us. This should be a wake up call. Yet I do not see or feel the fervor. This problem will cost us in money and lives and it will …
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Drug users getting older
Public service announcements warn parents of children raiding the medicine cabinet to get high. But coroners say a growing number of victims of drug deaths are parents themselves. Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Treatment Center Finder Expands Their Addiction Hotline
The 2012 National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows an average increase of 10% in drug and alcohol abuse across all ages and addiction types. Addictions to drugs or alcohol was stable from 2002 until 2006 according to NSDUH but has since showed …
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Amendment would crack down on street sales of opiate treatment drug
State senators Thursday proposed legislation intended to crack down on the amount of the opiate addiction treatment drug buprenorphine that is being sold on the street. A four-page amendment to a major bill the Senate Judiciary Committee is crafting …
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Legal high drug deaths soar in UK
Experts who compile the annual report of the National Programme on Substance Abuse Deaths based at St George's, University of London, say the number of deaths in which legal highs such as Meow, Meow and Benzo Fury, have been directly implicated have …
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Robert Knight: The ACLU’s deadly prescription for addiction – U-T San Diego

Robert Knight: The ACLU's deadly prescription for addiction U-T San Diego 2 in his Manhattan office-apartment of an apparent drug overdose. Investigators found a large quantity of heroin and prescription medications. Heroin abuse is on the rise, and so is the abuse of a variety of prescribed narcotics, or opioids. Overdoses …

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Prescription drug mis-use subject of presentation – Stratford Star

Prescription drug mis-use subject of presentation Stratford Star 26, at 7 p.m., at Town Hall. Currently, prescription drugs are responsible for more overdose deaths than illegal street drugs combined. Rader, who is now living drug free, tells a story of addiction, recovery and redemption from which anyone can learn …

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