Posts Tagged ‘illicit drug abuse’
SALINE: First Meeting for Drug Abuse Task Force to Be Scheduled Soon – Heritage Newspapers
SALINE: First meeting for drug abuse task force to be scheduled soon – Heritage Newspapers
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SALINE: First meeting for drug abuse task force to be scheduled soon
Heritage Newspapers Others serving on the task force will include: Joel Benedeck, school social worker; Therese Doud, substance abuse coordinator for Washtenaw County Health; Trudy Driscoll, resident and former school board president; Ken Gilmore, senior pastor at … |
Study links US teen energy drink intake to illicit drug abuse – BeverageDaily.com
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Study links US teen energy drink intake to illicit drug abuse
BeverageDaily.com Taking part in the university's 'Monitoring the Future' study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the students answered questionnaires on their use of energy drinks/shots, alcohol and drugs. 'Strong association' with substance use … Teens Who Consume Energy Drinks Are At Higher Risk Of Substance Abuse Energy Drinks Are A Gateway Drug For Teens? Energy Drinks Associated with Use of Alcohol and Drugs |
Mentally Ill Patients Abuse Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs More Than the General …
Mentally Ill Patients Abuse Alcohol, Tobacco, And Drugs More Than The General …
However, the prevalence of alcohol, drug, and tobacco abuse among people with a mental illness seldom receives attention. A study out of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the University of Southern California determined that …
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Stemming Drug Abuse Among The Youth
DRUG abuse has been categorised as the habitual taking of addictive or illegal drugs or the illegal use of prescription drugs. According to the Oxford Dictionary on the other hand drug is a substance used as a medicine or in a medicine. It can also be …
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The "other drug problem," in our own medicine cabinets
Generally, Colorado and the nation are making progress in reducing illicit drug abuse among teens. But there's one big exception: nonmedical use of prescription drugs. Every day in this country, 2,500 teens abuse a prescription drug for the first time …
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Lupica: Chiara De Blasio’s Substance Abuse Admission Was Orchestrated by De … – New York Daily News
Lupica: Chiara de Blasio’s substance abuse admission was orchestrated by de … – New York Daily News
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Lupica: Chiara de Blasio's substance abuse admission was orchestrated by de …
New York Daily News Somehow, on Christmas Eve, the incoming mayor of New York City, Bill de Blasio, managed to turn his teenage daughter's struggles with alcohol and drugs into one last campaign ad, even though this was the darker, flip side of the television commercial … Daughter of NYC Mayor-Elect Opens Up About Drug Abuse NY mayor-elect's daughter tells of substance abuse De Blasio's Daughter Reveals Substance Abuse |
The “other drug problem,” in our own medicine cabinets – Denver Post
Bitterness Will Destroy You
Bitterness will destroy you – Bitterness destroys many people. Many people carry bad experiences with them and those experiences determine how they react later in life. How they live thei…
Dr. Wilson Compton named Deputy Director, National Institute on Drug Abuse
“In more than a decade as a Division Director here at NIDA, he has built a formidable team supporting research into the extent and causes of substance abuse, with a strong focus on tobacco, prescription and illicit drug abuse. His passion is unwavering …
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Insurance Must Cover Mental Health, Substance Abuse Just Like Physical …
The Obama administration announced new rules on Friday that will require insurers to cover the treatment of mental health and substance abuse in the same manner they would physical maladies. The regulations, unveiled by Secretary of Health and Human …
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FDA Beefs Up Pain-Drug Warnings in Face of Abuse Epidemic
FDA beefs up pain-drug warnings in face of abuse epidemic
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed stronger safety language on labels of long-acting and extended-release opioids in response to an epidemic of overdoses and deaths from the widely used pain medicines. Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Official: Prescription drug abuse a problem; not enough doctors tracking
Prescription drug abuse is a big problem in our country and there's a push to fight it here in parts of the state. But Maricopa County is still pretty far behind. Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
FDA beefs up pain-drug warnings due to abuse
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed stronger safety language on labels of long-acting and extended-release opioids in response to an epidemic of overdoses and deaths from the widely used pain medicines. Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Painkiller Addictions Worst Drug Epidemic in US History
Painkiller addictions worst drug epidemic in US history
At the same time, the first-ever global analysis of illicit drug abuse, published this month in the British medical journal The Lancet, found that addictions to heroin and popular painkillers, including Vicodin and OxyContin, kill the most people and … Read more on Al Jazeera America
A nation of prescription drug addicts: More Britons die from abusing …
Addiction to prescription drugs is so rife that more Britons die from taking painkillers and tranquillisers than heroin and cocaine. There were 807 fatal overdoses involving prescription drugs last year, a rise of 16 per cent in five years, official … Read more on Daily Mail
Drug Addiction Relapse – Jacklyn Discusses Her Drug Abuse And Addiction Recovery At Palm Partners – Drug addiction relapse, a problem for you too? In this video, Jacklyn explains how she overcame her drug abuse and addiction. Listen how Palm Partners drug r…