Drug Abuse

Posts Tagged ‘national institute on drug abuse’

The Ripple Effect of Substance Abuse (Creativity for a Cause) – Young adults talk about how their parents’ substance abuse has impacted them in their own lives. By Bethany Yates Song: “Breath In, Breath Out” by Between th…

Opinion: Tom Petri retirement, meth manufacturing
Meth, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, initially causes a rush of good feelings, but ultimately leads to users feeling edgy, overly excited, angry or afraid. It causes medical problems including extreme body temperature, severe …
Read more on The Sheboygan Press

Pot Prohibitionists Will Have to Do Better Than Bill Bennett's BS
According to the headline of an essay by Beach and his boss, former drug czar Bill Bennett, in the May 5 issue of The Weekly Standard, they are also fighting "The Legalization Juggernaut," which presumably is moving with the tide. … As I note in my …
Read more on Reason (blog)    Read more...

Barnes: What needs to change about how abuse and addiction are treated
Drug abuse and addiction costs are estimated to exceed half a trillion dollars in this country, including health, crime-related costs and losses in productivity. — Dr. Nora Volkow, director of National Institute on Drug Abuse. • Prescription drugs …
Read more on Auburn Citizen

Uruguay may treat drug–addicted prisoners with medical weed
MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Furthering its international reputation as a cannabis vanguard, this small South American country could start treating its drug-addicted prisoners with medical marijuana. How serious Uruguay is about allowing … from marijuana …
Read more on GlobalPost

The Music Hall showing eye-opening film about drug abuse
Peter Shumlin's recent State of the State address, as the governor stressed the growing drug addiction problem in the state and the need to treat it. Shumlin also proposed $ 20,000 to ensure that the patients featured in "The Hungry Heart," can visit …
Read more on Seacoastonline.com    Read more...

Drug Take Back Day
Also happening at our 3 News Studios people were doing a little spring cleaning of their medicine cabinets. Today was the 4th Annual Coastal Bend Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Prescription drug abuse is not only a big problem here in the Coastal Bend but across the nation as well. Local pharmacists along with CCPD and DEA agents were on hand taking your unused or unwanted prescription drugs … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Substance abuse
1959) —  Spandau Ballet (1983) The simplest way to understand this is: more is not necessarily better. It’s got to do with our use of prescription drugs – the kinds legally prescribed and procured – the kinds that come from doctors. According to the US National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), drug addiction is defined as “a chronic, relapsing disease characterized by compulsive drug seeking and … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results    Read more...

UTMB awarded .6 million grant to establish Translational Addiction Sciences …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse has awarded a five-year, $ 6.6 million grant to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston to establish the Translational Addiction Sciences Center. The center will investigate the mechanisms underlying …
Read more on News-Medical.net

Heroin Addiction: Parents Hear from Parents
Shortly after his death the couple co-founded Drug Crisis in Our Backyard and now give programs across Westchester and Putnam Counties, shedding light on their family's tragic experience and the issues surrounding drug addiction. Susan Salomone …
Read more on Philipstown.info

HAYC3 panel includes firsthand account of drug addiction
The panel featured Doug Davidson, who spoke of his personal experiences battling with opiate and other drug addiction. He said it is likely that everyone knows somebody who is a drug addict or alcoholic. He said it's important to understand how …
Read more on Bennington Banner    Read more...

Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Huffington Post

Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Huffington Post Comparatively speaking, there is a much smaller percentage of individuals whom abuse drugs, legal or otherwise. So how could this be? How can unintentional poisoning from drug overdose kill more people than car accidents in at least 29 states? And how … AG's office taking part in National Prescription Drug Take-Back DayWest Virginia Record Rahall calls meeting on W.Va.'s drug problemBeckley Register-Herald all 46 news articles »

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

Drug-related death, illness statistics grim in Mercer, McDowell – Bluefield Daily Telegraph

Read more... Drug-related death, illness statistics grim in Mercer, McDowell Bluefield Daily Telegraph PRINCETON — Southern West Virginia's persistent drug–abuse problem is now evident in state statistics: Both Mercer County and neighboring McDowell County have some of the highest rates for drug overdoses and drug-related health problems.

Prescription Abuse Summit Notebook: The statistics of opiate addiction – Fall River Herald News

Prescription Abuse Summit Notebook: The statistics of opiate addiction Fall River Herald News This week, at the National RX Drug Abuse Summit, a slew of statistics have been put forth in several PowerPoint presentations, lectures and discussions of what the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have described as a national "epidemic …

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Huffington Post

Read more... Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic Huffington Post Comparatively speaking, there is a much smaller percentage of individuals whom abuse drugs, legal or otherwise. So how could this be? How can unintentional poisoning from drug overdose kill more people than car accidents in at least 29 states? And how … AG's office taking part in National Prescription Drug Take-Back DayWest Virginia Record all 46 news articles »