Posts Tagged ‘heroin abuse’
I Got a Question About Drugs =O?
Question by Enrique: I got a question about drugs =o?
Do you believe that an educational program such as D.A.R.E. can take kids away from drugs, or are there reasons for teenage drug abuse so complex that a single school based program is doomed to fail?
Best answer:
Answer by darcey
Good question. I would have to say both. kids are so diverse that it is hard to find the right program to fit all types of kids.
Answer by Dan
The DARE program doesn’t work:
In 2001, the Surgeon General of the United States placed the D.A.R.E. program in the category of “Does Not Work”
Researchers at Indiana University in 1992 found that those who completed the D.A.R.E. program subsequently had significantly higher rates of hallucinogenic drug use than those not exposed to the program.
W.Va. Law Symposium Talks Prescription Drug Abuse – the Daily Athenaeum
W.Va. Law Symposium talks prescription drug abuse – The Daily Athenaeum
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W.Va. Law Symposium talks prescription drug abuse
The Daily Athenaeum The event included a panel of honorable speakers, including Robert McKinney, the Counsel to West Virginia Adult and Juvenile Drug Courts; Michael Barnes, the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Lawful Access and Abuse Deterrence; and Adam … |
DA: Unified effort vital to battle prescription drug, heroin abuse – Tribune-Review
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DA: Unified effort vital to battle prescription drug, heroin abuse
Tribune-Review Education – inform young people and parents of the dangers of prescription drug abuse before it starts, while training medical practitioners and health care professionals about the appropriate methods of prescription opioid distribution. Both heroin … Washington County DA, coroner create working group to combat overdoses Washington County officials announce working group |
I Want to Start My Own “Support Group”…(read On)?
Question by Joy Borrows: I want to start my own “support group”…(read on)?
I know what it’s like being on my own, feeling severely depressed and whatnot. And, I know lots of people who have been in the same boat as well. Thankfully, I’ve since got my life back on track 🙂 I guess, this has made me wonder…is there a way I can help others out? I’d love to start a little group where people can just come and go to support one another through the though times. It’d be about identifying oneself, knowing what makes them (the people who come to these “support one another” groups) happy and self-satisfied. You wouldn’t have to spill all of your problems of course- it’s more for being able to feel confident that you can cope with how things are going in your life (does that make any sense?) The group would be targeted at high school students (I’m in my last year of high school). I guess it’d be something of a “youth group” minus the religious parts. Do you think I could make this? And if so, how would I do it?
Robert Knight: The ACLU’s Deadly Prescription for Addiction – U-T San Diego
Robert Knight: The ACLU’s deadly prescription for addiction – U-T San Diego
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Robert Knight: The ACLU's deadly prescription for addiction
U-T San Diego 2 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 prescribed narcotics, or opioids. Overdoses … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Prescription drug mis-use subject of presentation – Stratford Star
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Prescription drug mis-use subject of presentation
Stratford Star 26, at 7 p.m., at Town Hall. Currently, prescription drugs are responsible for more overdose deaths than illegal street drugs combined. Rader, who is now living drug free, tells a story of addiction, recovery and redemption from which anyone can learn … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Substance Abuse Groups Take Message to the Capitol – KHAS-TV
Substance abuse groups take message to the Capitol – KHAS-TV
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Substance abuse groups take message to the Capitol
KHAS-TV The recent heroin overdose of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman is drawing attention to the dangers of hard drugs. Here in Nebraska area substance abuse coalitions are focusing on prevention methods. Lincoln based behavioral health group, Region V Systems … |
Senate plan would curb drug abuse among women – Merced Sun-Star
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Senate plan would curb drug abuse among women
Merced Sun-Star 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 … |
Heroin abuse at ‘epidemic’ level in South Florida -drug report – Reuters
Bill Proposes Clearer Laws for Prescription Drug Abuse – WLTX.com
Bill Proposes Clearer Laws For Prescription Drug Abuse – WLTX.com
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Bill Proposes Clearer Laws For Prescription Drug Abuse
WLTX.com Columbia, SC (WLTX) — A proposed bill is trying to set a new standard in laws to prevent prescription drug abuse. "Right now we don't have any laws that we can charge anybody with trafficking pills," Agent Anthony Branham with the Columbia Police … Proposed law targets prescription drug trafficking McConnell proposes tougher prescription drug laws McConnell proposes law targeting prescription drug trafficking |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Prescription drug abuse hidden problem in Oklahoma – Miami News Record
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Prescription drug abuse hidden problem in Oklahoma
Miami News Record Oklahoma pharmacies filled nearly 10 million prescriptions for narcotic painkillers and other controlled dangerous substances last year, according to newly obtained state data. Those prescriptions — an average of 68 per patient, including refills … |