Posts Tagged ‘drug overdose’
Maldives Launches There National Campaign on Drug Prevention
Maldives launches there national campaign on drug prevention – http://karmavision.tv/video/566/unicef_maldives_launches_its_first_ever_national_campaign_on_drug_prevention.html A nationwide campaign on drug prevention in…
Sewickley-area schools, agencies provide resources to prevent drug abuse
With at least 22 drug overdose deaths reported across a six-county region within the past few weeks, Sewickley-area leaders say they're focused on prevention resources to help young people faced with substance abuse issues. “There is a lot of naivete …
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KNIGHT: The ACLU’s Deadly Prescription for Addiction – Washington Times
KNIGHT: The ACLU’s deadly prescription for addiction – Washington Times
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KNIGHT: The ACLU's deadly prescription for addiction
Washington Times The 46-year-old actor was found dead on Sunday 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 … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Attorney General Olens PSA on Prescription Drug Abuse –
How Can We Use Anthropology in Order to Understand “Substance Abuse” And/or Addiction?
Question by eveofthefuture: How can we use anthropology in order to understand “substance abuse” and/or addiction?
Up until now, rehab programs have not been very successful. In your own words, give me some examples where anthropology and sociology can be applied and used in regards to developing a rehab program maybe more adapted to addicts.
xx machina: True, it was extremely important to anthropologists up until recently. Things have changed. With the emergence of what we call in France “Le devoir d’Ingerence,” post- post- modernist theories and more, the idea of objectivity and subjectivity have definitely transformed. New branches of anthropology are actually born with the desire to change the world, therefore, to judge and speak out (applied anthropology is a good example). You will find more and more applied anthropologists working in health organizations, developing health programs with just that “an anthropological approach.” Many medical, cultural, symbolic, urban anthropologists anthropologists have been writing on a social phenomenon called addiction. It would make sense to apply these findings in the benefit (not necessarily judge as you point out) of addicts.
Thank you Dek and Glo.
Heather Yakin: Database a Step in Taking Action to Curb Drug Abuse
Heather Yakin: Database a step in taking action to curb drug abuse
New York's new tool to combat prescription drug abuse, the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing, has been in operation since August, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that it's going gangbusters. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Cuomo: Prescription drug abuse crackdown working
ALBANY — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is crediting a prescription monitoring law passed in 2012 with a dramatic reduction in the abuse of prescription opiates in the past year. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Philip Seymour Hoffman death: A cautionary tale about branded heroin?
Others were labeled “Ace of Hearts.” There were used syringes, some prescription-pill bottles, and a small amount of cocaine. This was the scene police describe at actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Manhattan apartment after he was found dead Sunday of an apparent (but still unconfirmed) drug overdose. The brand names are an attempt to boost a product’s popularity, promising that the product will be … Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
How Come Questions About Sobriety Only Get 12-Step Answers, Never SMART Recovery or CRAFT?
Question by Henry S: How come questions about sobriety only get 12-step answers, never SMART Recovery or CRAFT?
CRAFT (Community Reinforcement Approach Family Training) as described in Meyers and Wolfe’s book One Sober: Alternatives to nagging, pleading and threatening – from Hazelden Press! – describes a non-confrontational approach to helping others get sober that works. In research it did 6 X better than Alannon (which doesn’t actually aim to help but rather helps people let go) and 2X better than the Johnson Institute “intervention” (which makes people angry and feel they’ve been attacked). Also, SMART (Self-Management And Recovery Training) at www.smartrecovery.org offers a similar science-based and secular approach that is much more appealing to folks who don’t beleive in a Higher Power who will fix it if properly prayed to and appeased, and SMART Recovery is based on approachs proven to work. So why are all the answers to such questions always AA, 12-step, anonymous group oriented?
Senate Plan Would Curb Drug Abuse Among Women – Bellingham Herald
Senate plan would curb drug abuse among women – Bellingham Herald
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Senate plan would curb drug abuse among women
Bellingham Herald INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Senate has given unanimous approval to a measure aimed at curbing drug abuse among pregnant women. Republican Sen. Vaneta Becker of Evansville wrote the measure which would require hospitals to report cases of … |
Heather Yakin: Database a step in taking action to curb drug abuse – Times Herald-Record
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Heather Yakin: Database a step in taking action to curb drug abuse
Times Herald-Record New York's new tool to combat prescription drug abuse, the Internet System for Tracking Over-Prescribing, has been in operation since August, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that it's going gangbusters. I-STOP, as the database is more … |