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12 Days of Christmas Seen Through the Eyes of Emergency Medicine Physicians
Feature story about health care issues Pennsylvania emergency room physicians see during the December holiday season. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Question by It’s Kippah, Kippah the dawg: Are you an anti-drug czar?
From a Yahoo article…

According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Adminstration, marijuana was involved in 242,200 visits to hospital emergency rooms in 2005. This means that the patient mentioned using marijuana and does not mean the drug directly caused the accident or condition being treated, SAMHSA says.

If the patient only MENTIONED that he or she had smoked weed, which could of been up to 30 days prior with today’s drug testing, how does that make a hospital visit pot related? See how you czars twist words and facts to fit your agenda?

Give it a rest already. Alcohol and tobacco cause far more deaths than weed, yet they remain legal. Why? Guess the gov’t got addicted to the tax revenue eh?

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Question by Coltin: How serious is a juvenile drug paraphernalia charge?
Last night me and a friend were by some baseball fields getting ready to smoke pot. My friend started packing a bowl and hit it and handed it to me but a car started coming towards us and it turned out being the popo, so he came up and smelled the car and searched it and my friend handed the officer his two bowls and his 0.2 grams left that he had and I had a bowl with resign only inside so the cop arrested us both on drug paraphernalia charges and I was wondering what all my consequences could be since ill have to go to court soon and were both 16 and live in Illinois.

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Answer by Brittany M
If its your first offense you might get a bargain, community service or probation    Read more...

Fostering a brighter future
By Caitlin Conrad/KTVL.com JACKSON COUNTY, Ore — When we think about children who are taken away by the state, what often comes to mind is, neglect, drug use, and abuse. Social service workers in Jackson County say, what underlies are of it, is that some parents just don't know hoe to be a mom or dad. … Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Voice of the People: Nov. 20, 2013
This week many of you called in about a story we did on emergency room wait times. And some of you also sounded off about the fire alarm problems at the Hamden Public Library. Here's tonight's Voice of the People. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

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Long road to substance abuse treatment for NH Medicaid patients will soon be …
“How many people end up in emergency rooms when there's alcohol behind the situation, whether it causes a mental health incident or an accident or some other medical problem?” he asked. “The impact (of substance abuse) on individuals and families and …
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Only 16% of Adults See Progress on Prescription Drug Abuse: Survey
A new Pew Research Center survey finds only 16 percent of Americans think the nation is making progress on prescription drug abuse, and 19 percent see progress in dealing with mental illness. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

PCC director to warn about prescription, synthetic drugs
Linda Kalin started her career as an emergency room nurse. One of the case types she saw were people who abused prescription drugs. Kalin, now the director of the Iowa Statewide Poison Control Center, will speak at Iowa State University on Tuesday about prescription drug abuse and newer trends that are being seen, such as synthetic drugs, or K2. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

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