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Drug Abuse: Religion Can Be Powerful Ally in Fight Against Substance Abuse – Orlando Sentinel

Drug Abuse: Religion can be powerful ally in fight against substance abuse – Orlando Sentinel


Washington Times (blog)
Religion can be powerful ally in fight against substance abuse
Orlando Sentinel
By Joel Wells | Guest columnists Another entertainer died prematurely due to substance abuse, this time the beloved Whitney Houston. I always imagined that she was exactly like the role she played in "The Preachers Wife," and I believe that is how the
A prescription to prevent pharmaceutical drug abuse is neededWashington Times (blog)
Can't Hollywood address drug abuse?Daily Mail – Charleston
Hollywood Should 'Just Say No' to DrugsNewsMax.com
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Drug Abuse – Google News

Drug Abuse: NIDA creates easy-to-read website on drug abuse – Medical Xpress

Drug Abuse Statistics: Rx Drug Abuse Rising – Montana Standard

Drug Abuse Statistics: Rx drug abuse rising – Montana Standard
statistics show. And it’s getting worse. Butte police Capt. Doug Conway said he has observed a “drastic” increase in prescription drug abuse cases in the Mining City. “It’s comparable to methamphetamine. In fact, it could be worse than …
Drug Abuse Statistics – Bing News

Drug Abuse Statistics: More Idaho High-schoolers Have Used Marijuana – Twin Falls Times-News
Those statistics are included in the 2011 Idaho Youth Risk Behavior … Marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. About 3 percent of students surveyed said they’d used …
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Drug Abuse Statistics: N.Y. Website To Fight Prescription Drug Abuse – 13 WHAM
“Share Your I-STOP Story” features personal stories from New Yorkers impacted by prescription drug abuse. A proposed law in the state … dispensing of frequently abused narcotics. “Numbers and statistics are important, but at the end of the day, the …
Drug Abuse Statistics – Bing News

Causes of Drug Abuse: Legalizing Drugs Won’t Prevent Abuse – CNN

Causes of Drug Abuse: Legalizing drugs won’t prevent abuse – CNN
First, we do not know the immediate cause of Houston’s death … legalization does not prevent the abuse and misuse of drugs. In fact, it accelerates it. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription drug abuse is …
Causes of Drug Abuse – Bing News

Causes of Drug Abuse: Drug deaths surpass car accident fatalities – msnbc.com
Prescription drug abuse is now considered the number one cause of death among Florida residents. “Sometimes if it doesn’t affect us- then we don’t know or care,” says Southwest Florida Addiction Services Program Director Alex Garcia-Barbon. In Southwest …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Prescription abuse ‘epidemic’ in Houston – msnbc.com
As investigators determine the cause of Whitney Houston’s death … The combination of it all is bringing new light to the continuing problem of prescription drug abuse nationwide.  Local 2 Investigates is looking into why Houston has been …
Causes of Drug Abuse – Bing News

No ‘Magic Bullet’ to Fight Prescription Drug Misuse – CBC

Drug Abuse Statistics: No ‘magic bullet’ to fight prescription drug misuse – CBC
For example, statistics from the Coroners Service of … system that would allow doctors to know in real time every drug that a patient is receiving. The Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse organized a “national dialogue” earlier this month looking at …
Drug Abuse Statistics – Bing News

Drug Abuse Statistics: Rx drug abuse rising – Montana Standard
statistics show. And it’s getting worse. Butte police Capt. Doug Conway said he has observed a “drastic” increase in prescription drug abuse cases in the Mining City. “It’s comparable to methamphetamine. In fact, it could be worse than …
Drug Abuse Statistics – Bing News

Drug Abuse Statistics: National Coalition Holds Prescription Drug Take-back Day in Palm Springs Ahead of Pain Medicine Scientific Meeting – YAHOO!
Statistics from the California Department of Health show … “Hundreds of people in our community have been affected by prescription drug abuse and misuse, and this event allows local residents to be part of the solution,” said Sergeant Mike Kovaleff …
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Strategy on Prescription Drug Addiction Needed: Experts – CTV.ca

Drug Addiction: Strategy on prescription drug addiction needed: experts – CTV.ca


CTV.ca
Strategy on prescription drug addiction needed: experts
CTV.ca
TORONTO — Addiction experts are applauding new provincial restrictions on OxyContin and the drug replacing it, but say Canada needs a national strategy to tackle widespread abuse of prescription painkillers. Ontario's decision last week to remove
Experts call for national strategy to fight prescription drug addictionGuelph Mercury
Fallout feared from Ont. drug restrictionsWindsor Star
Prescription drug addictionsCastanet.net
Globe and Mail -680 News
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Drug Addiction: Doctors try to end pregnant drug-abuse’s stigma – 9NEWS.com

Doctors try to end pregnant drug-abuse's stigma
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A Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment report estimated that of the 66000 babies born in Colorado in 2010, 17 percent were exposed to tobacco, 12 percent to alcohol, 6 percent to prescription drug abuse, and 4 percent to illicit drugs.

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Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategy on Prescription Drug Addiction Needed: Experts – CTV.ca

Prescription Drug Abuse: Strategy on prescription drug addiction needed: experts – CTV.ca


CTV.ca
Strategy on prescription drug addiction needed: experts
CTV.ca
TORONTO — Addiction experts are applauding new provincial restrictions on OxyContin and the drug replacing it, but say Canada needs a national strategy to tackle widespread abuse of prescription painkillers. Ontario's decision last week to remove
Prescription drug addictionsCastanet.net
Addiction experts applaud Ontario's move to limit OxyContin680 News

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Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News

Prescription Drug Abuse: Targeting prescription abuse – Philadelphia Inquirer

Targeting prescription abuse
Philadelphia Inquirer
By Michael A. Fuoco With prescription drug addiction in the United States at an all-time high, a Pennsylvania lawmaker is seeking to identify and help addicts through a database that would track use of medications. State Rep.
States Take Steps Against Prescription Drug AbuseTestCountry.com (blog)
Tennessee hoping to slow growing misuse of prescription drugsMemphis Commercial Appeal
States step up battle over prescription abuseSTLtoday.com
The Tennessean
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