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Drug Addiction: Mental Health, Drug Abuse Agencies to Merge – Chillicothe Gazette
Drug Addiction: Mental health, drug abuse agencies to merge – Chillicothe Gazette
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Mental health, drug abuse agencies to merge
Chillicothe Gazette The move was announced Friday and involves the Ohio Department of Mental Health and the Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services. They will be merged July 1 pending legislative approval. State officials told The Columbus Dispatch layoffs are … Kasich to merge service agencies |
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Drug Addiction: Drug-addicted babies another casualty in prescription drug abuse battle – Chillicothe Gazette
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Drug–addicted babies another casualty in prescription drug abuse battle
Chillicothe Gazette The first national study on babies born with addictions to prescription pain killers was released this past week and revealed soaring and scary statistics. About 3.4 of every 1000 infants born in a hospital in 2009 suffered from some type of drug … |
Drug Addiction: Russell Brand Testifies on Drug Addiction, Calls It a Health Matter – Entertainment Online
Drug Addiction: Russell Brand Testifies on Drug Addiction, Calls It a Health Matter – Entertainment Online
Russell Brand is taking a stand on behalf of his fellow addicts. The comedian and former heroin user went before the British Parliament’s Home Affairs Committee today and offered up testimony as to why he believes substance abusers should get treatment …
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Drug Addiction: Ex-Celtic Chris Herren using “Project Purple” to fight drug addiction – YAHOO!
Chris Herren already knows how this is going to end when the Boston sky darkens Tuesday evening and one by one the downtown buildings – from the Prudential Tower to the state capitol to UMass-Boston – are bathed in a purple glow for his anti-drug project.
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Drug Addiction: Russell Brand to British parliament: Drug addiction should be treated like a disease – Raw Story
Comedian, actor and former heroin addict, Russell Brand, has suggested politicians should regard drug addiction as a disease to be treated as a health issue rather than a criminal or judicial matter. The flamboyant film star, who arrived to give …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: With Prescription Drug Abuse on the Rise, Health Professionals Work to Combat Deadly Problem
Prescription Drug Abuse: With prescription drug abuse on the rise, health professionals work to combat deadly problem
A man stumbles into a pharmacy and his bloodshot eyes dart around the room until they spot what he wants. He slowly makes his way to the counter — his appearance sloppy and dirty — and demands drugs from a pharmacist. The longer he waits, the…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Florida turns tide on prescription drug abuse
Florida can celebrate several major milestones in the struggle to contain the state’s prescription drug abuse and pill mill epidemic. Striking new evidence exposes the depth and depravity of this years-long nightmare. While doctors purchased some 46 million oxycodone tablets in 2010, that figure plunged to 1.2 million last year — an astounding 97 percent drop.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: State considers prescription drug database
Officials: Program would reduce abuse The New Hampshire Board of Medicine is willing to increase physician licensing fees to help pay for a proposed database that would keep track of commonly abused prescription drugs, one of its members told lawmakers Thursday. Prescription drug monitoring programs seek to reduce the abuse of prescription drugs by allowing physicians to check whether a patient …
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Drug Abuse Statistics: ONN Health Journal: Ohio Drug Abuse Study – Ohio News Network
Drug Abuse Statistics: ONN Health Journal: Ohio Drug Abuse Study – Ohio News Network
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ONN Health Journal: Ohio Drug Abuse Study
Ohio News Network New statistics from a drug prevention survey indicate that just over 21 percent of Ohio's high school seniors said that they have used a prescription drug outside of medical supervision. Beth Wilson of DrugFree.org and Stacey Gohnapfel-Hasson of the … |
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Drug Abuse Statistics: Police cite statistics in locking of Douglass Park lot – Columbia Missourian
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Police cite statistics in locking of Douglass Park lot
Columbia Missourian At a community forum Wednesday night, Parks and Recreation Director Mike Hood said local residents and staff at neighboring Douglass High School had complained that aggressive panhandling, alcohol abuse, and drug use and sales were occurring in the … |
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Drug Abuse Statistics: National Report Finds One-in-Five Americans Experienced Mental Illness in the … – Newswise (press release)
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse: A Growing Public Health Concern – Student Operated Press
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse: A Growing Public Health Concern – Student Operated Press
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Regina M. Benjamin will address the need for major public health initiatives across many fields during the first National Rx Drug Abuse Summit in April. “The negative impacts of substance abuse span a broad spectrum …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: The Fastest Growing Drug Problem in America: Prescription Painkillers – Student Operated Press
Prescription drug abuse is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. The dramatic increase in accidental drug overdose deaths in recent years is largely attributed to increased use of prescription painkillers (narcotics), known …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse – Part 3 – Beach Beacon
One method of prescription drug abuse involves crushing different medications together, mixing with water and injecting. CLEARWATER – Paul Melton is well versed in the many facets of prescription drug abuse. He’s involved and impassioned. Melton is an …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Addiction and health
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Causes of Drug Abuse: ‘Spice’ manufacturers change formula, sell drug again
DAYTON — Manufacturers of Spice or K2, a synthetic marijuana, altered their recipes and are again marketing their product in stores and on the web, but officials say the new formula is still illegal under Ohio law.Spice, often sold in packets as “herbal incense,” is smoked to get high, and has been found by a National Institute on Drug Abuse study to be the second-most frequently used illicit …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: New enemy infiltrates U.S. ranks: Use of synthetic pot that causes day-long hallucinations and schizophrenic symptoms …
It can bring on hallucinations that last for days, is hard to detect, and was legal in some states until earlier this year. And now, the synthetic marijuana mix called Spice is spreading through the military at a startling rate.
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Family priority 2012: Turn back liberalised booze laws
Family First NZ has released its annual list of the top family issues to be tackled, and heading the list for 2012 is turning back NZ’s liberalised alcohol laws.
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