Posts Tagged ‘drug overdose’
New Party Drug May Have Killed Youths at Festival
New party drug may have killed youths at festival
KUALA LUMPUR – A new party drug that is still legal may have caused the death of six youths at the recent Future Music Festival Asia (FMFA) concert. Dr Mahmud Mazlan, who runs 10 clinics specialising in drug abuse treatment, said he felt the deaths were not due to drug overdose as widely reported. It was more likely caused by mephedrone, a party drug used recently in the West, which caught on in … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Group draws support to curb drug abuse
Before asking the White House for $ 625,000, they huddled around the computer and appealed to an even higher authority. Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Poor Oxytocin Development Could Be to Blame for Alcohol and Drug Addiction – Medical News Today
Poor oxytocin development could be to blame for alcohol and drug addiction – Medical News Today
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Poor oxytocin development could be to blame for alcohol and drug addiction
Medical News Today New research from the University of Adelaide in Australia suggests that poor development of oxytocin in early childhood may explain why some individuals succumb to addictive behavior, such as alcohol or drug abuse. Oxytocin, more commonly referred to … |
Thumbs down: Collaboration vital to make headway on drug addiction – Huntington Herald Dispatch
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Thumbs down: Collaboration vital to make headway on drug addiction
Huntington Herald Dispatch About four dozen people in Putnam County this week were painted a picture of how widespread the problem of drug abuse has become. As you might guess, it wasn't pretty. The occasion was an "informational and prayer initiative" at the county's courthouse … |
Seattle High School Tackles Growing Drug Abuse Problem – KING5.com
Seattle high school tackles growing drug abuse problem – KING5.com
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Seattle high school tackles growing drug abuse problem
KING5.com SEATTLE — Roosevelt High School administrators are facing an alcohol and drug abuse problem head on. After discovering that the problem is growing on campus, the school immediately brought in educators and proponents for alcohol and drug education. |
Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse – WSAW
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Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse
WSAW Addiction is a real issue here in our community, and unfortunately, much of it begins with teenage drug use. That's why the Alcohol and Other Drug Partnership is working to bring awareness to drug use among our youth. "I am a mother that helplessly … |
Seattle High School Tackles Growing Drug Abuse Problem – KING5.com
Seattle high school tackles growing drug abuse problem – KING5.com
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Seattle high school tackles growing drug abuse problem
KING5.com SEATTLE — Roosevelt High School administrators are facing an alcohol and drug abuse problem head on. After discovering that the problem is growing on campus, the school immediately brought in educators and proponents for alcohol and drug education. |
Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse – WSAW
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Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse
WSAW Addiction is a real issue here in our community, and unfortunately, much of it begins with teenage drug use. That's why the Alcohol and Other Drug Partnership is working to bring awareness to drug use among our youth. "I am a mother that helplessly … |
Vance-Backed Prescription Drug Database Bill Moves Out of Committee – the Patriot-News
Vance-backed prescription drug database bill moves out of committee – The Patriot-News
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Vance-backed prescription drug database bill moves out of committee
The Patriot-News Pat Vance, R-Cumberland County, who says abuse and addiction related to prescription drugs is the leading cause of drug overdoses. Vance further said 80 percent of people who become addicted to heroin first abused prescription drugs, often painkillers … Expanding police access to prescription drug records puts Pa. House, Senate at … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
EDITORIAL: Lawmakers must act on prescription drug, heroin abuse – Asbury Park Press
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EDITORIAL: Lawmakers must act on prescription drug, heroin abuse
Asbury Park Press How many more New Jerseyans have to die from opiates before the state Legislature moves on bills currently stuck in committee that seek to address at least some aspects of the epidemic? The time for hand-wringing is over. On Tuesday, the Governor's … |
How Painkillers Are Abused?
Question by emma: how painkillers are abused?
i am curious about the fact that people could get high on painkillers, how is that so?
Best answer:
Answer by Because I said so!
but taking more then your supposed to
Answer by Dalton
Yeah, a lot of people find the smallest excuse to have it prescribed to them so they can legally have a drug.
FDA chief defends controversial Zohydra painkiller
"Because of this painkiller's high potential for misuse and abuse, Zohydro poses a severely dangerous threat to our communities in West Virginia and across our country." Representative Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., introduced similar legislation in the House …
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Trying to Curb Painkiller Addiction With a Story
Drug overdose deaths rose for the 11th straight year, federal data show, and most of them were accidents involving addictive painkillers despite growing attention to risks from these medicines. As in previous recent years, opioid drugs ? which include …
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