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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Crime and Heroin – Transworld News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Crime and Heroin – Transworld News
Two different studies in the Chicago, Illinois area and the state of Massachusetts have shown a link between prescription drug abuse and a rise in crime and an eventual switch from pills to illicit drugs, such as heroin. In the Chicago area study, the …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Take Back event scheduled – Philadelphia Daily News
To encourage the safe disposal of prescription drugs and prevent drug abuse, the third National Prescription Drug Take Back will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Oct. 29, with more than 380 collection spots throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Florida fights back in the battle against prescription-drug abuse – Courier-Journal
Kentucky addicts who travel to Florida for easy access to prescription painkillers are facing new roadblocks — laws targeting rogue pain clinics, a prescription-drug monitoring system and tougher police enforcement. And while ending Florida …
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Drug Abuse Statistics: Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Crime and Heroin – Transworld News
Drug Abuse Statistics: Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Crime and Heroin – Transworld News
Prescription drug abuse in Massachusetts has reached the level of epidemic. Statistics show that opioid related deaths have increased by 600% over the last 20 years, non-heroin related opioid emergency room visits increased by 134%, the Substance Abuse and …
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Drug Abuse Statistics: Study Drug Shortage Hits During Mid-Term Period – WHSV
This has affected the Valley, too. Many pharmacies are low on the drug or lacking it completely. Statistics from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Service Administration estimates that the drug is taken by more than 6 percent of full time college students.
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Drug Abuse Statistics: NC leaders learn about anti-meth law – Asheville Citizen-Times
… in Buncombe County as crack cocaine and prescription drug abuse. Meth lab activity had been on the decline, according to U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration statistics, dropping from nearly 13,000 nationally in 2005 to about 6,000 in 2007.
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Drug Addiction: Recovering From Drug Addiction in Maryland – Transworld News
Drug Addiction: Recovering From Drug Addiction in Maryland – Transworld News
Addiction is a complex disease and as such the treatment of addiction can be just as complex. The key to recovering from drug addiction is to realize who you want to be and the person your addiction has caused you to be. You really need to look deep into …
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Drug Addiction: Most sex-trade workers would quit if they got off drugs, addiction expert says – The Vancouver Sun
Most sex-trade workers in Vancouver’s poverty-stricken Downtown Eastside would quit sex work if they could beat their drug addictions, an expert told the Missing Women inquiry Wednesday. Thomas Kerr, co-director of the Addiction and Urban Health Research …
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Drug Addiction: Marijuana, teens, addiction, and the War on Drugs – Examiner
Marijuana is a physically, and mentally addictive substance that ruins lives, makes people lazy, hungry and only losers smoke the stuff. One response that comes up frequently to a statement like that about marijuana being physically addictive is, “What …
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Drug Abuse: Prescription for Fighting Drug Abuse – Philadelphia Daily News
Drug Abuse: Prescription for fighting drug abuse – Philadelphia Daily News
Seeking to curtail drug abuse, especially by young people, public officials and community groups in Bucks County and around the Philadelphia area are targeting unused and out-of-date prescriptions. “If you have drugs of abuse – oxycontin, another one …
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Drug Abuse: Dr. Drew On Teen Prescription Drug Abuse – Huffingtonpost.com
If you have teenagers, you may have established a system to keep them out of your liquor cabinet or wine fridge. But experts are now saying you should lock up something else — your medicine cabinet. The painkillers you take when your back pain …
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Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse: Who Gets Addicted? – CBS42.com
People living with serious back pain have to sort through a lot of mixed messages about opioid — or narcotic — painkillers. On the one hand, you’ve heard stories about the seeming epidemic of addiction to these drugs, like OxyContin, Percocet, and …
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Drug Addiction: Vaccines for Drug Addiction Show Promise – Deseret News
Drug Addiction: Vaccines for drug addiction show promise – Deseret News
Getting off drugs may soon be as painless as getting a shot. The same type of scientists who brought the world vaccines against diseases like polio, smallpox and diphtheria have turned their attention in recent years to developing a shot that …
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Drug Addiction: Drug Rehab Centers In Florida Overwhelmed As Pill Mills Close – Transworld News
Because of this lax atmosphere, addicts from up and down the East Coast would travel to Florida’s pill mills to get their supply of highly addictive prescription drugs like Vicodin or Percocet, to either use themselves or sell for a huge price tag.
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Drug Addiction: New drug trial for addicts, relapse prevention hope from Yale – Examiner
In the world of drug treatment and relapse prevention two stories of hope have emerged. Yesterday the Vancover Sun reported on a study treating heroin addicts who have not responded well to conventional programs. At the same time, Yale professor Rajita …
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Drug Addiction: Hazelden’s New York Medical Director, Philip Gianelli, M.D., is Named Addiction Physician of the Year – YAHOO!
Hazelden, one of the world’s largest and most respected private, nonprofit alcohol and drug addiction treatment centers, operates residential and outpatient programs in New York, Minnesota, Oregon, Florida and Illinois. The annual award recognizes an …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Forum Targets Prescription Pill Abuse – Buffalo News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Forum targets prescription pill abuse – Buffalo News
The dots are the elements of our society that play some role in what Hochul and others describe as a prescription drug abuse crisis. It’s not only law enforcement but also the doctors and pharmacists who provide the painkillers. It’s …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription medicine abuse and teenagers – SW Iowa News
Prescription and over-the-counter drug abuse is increasing, especially by teen-agers. Parents should educate themselves and their teenagers about this problem before it’s too late. The expert findings are alarming. The 2010 National Survey on …
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