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State Officials Unhappy With Proposed Switch in Drug Abuse Office – vtdigger.org

State officials unhappy with proposed switch in drug abuse office – vtdigger.org


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State officials unhappy with proposed switch in drug abuse office
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The Office of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, known as ADAP, works with the Department of Vermont Health Access (DVHA) to run the state's new hub and spoke substance abuse treatment and recovery system, which officials say is extremely successful …

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Stopping Dual Drug Abuse Epidemics [AUDIO] – New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

Stopping Dual Drug Abuse Epidemics [AUDIO]
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The report also recommends “updating school curricula, school-based peer-to-peer programs, prescription drug abuse recognition and reporting protocols for educators.” Gray said expanding the New Jersey Prescription Monitoring Program is also …

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Wife: Slipknot bassist’s final days blur of drug abuse – USA TODAY

Pair Opens 'recovery-based' Center to Treat Addictions

Pair opens 'recovery-based' center to treat addictions
"We call it recovery-based," said Bierman, meaning that detoxification is part of the treatment. "I see other treatment centers, especially with opiate addicts, use replacement medication, also known as medication management, where they substitute …
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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have classified prescription drug abuse as an epidemic, and a national drug survey showed that one-third of people aged 12 and older who used drugs for the first time began by using a prescription drug …
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Garfield Co. Group Gets Grant to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – Enid News & Eagle

Garfield Co. group gets grant to combat prescription drug abuse – Enid News & Eagle

Garfield Co. group gets grant to combat prescription drug abuse
Enid News & Eagle
“Being certified as a CHIO brings more attention and increased capacity to our community's efforts to decrease prescription drug abuse,” said Sean Byrne, executive director of PreventionWorkz. “This is a problem that has reached epidemic proportions

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Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Huffington Post

Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
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Everyone knows someone who has been seriously affected by prescription drug abuse. Yet, when a report issued late last year revealed that the leading cause of accidental death in the United States is drug overdose — primarily from prescription drugs
AG's office taking part in National Prescription Drug Take-Back DayWest Virginia Record
Rahall convenes meeting on West Virginia's prescription drug abuse The Republic

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Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Huffington Post

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

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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

Teen Prescription Drug Abuse on the Rise


 

Teen prescription drug abuse on the rise – As part of our ongoing Campus Journalists series, Cameron University student Kyle Bush takes us to the inaugural Medicine Park Trout Festival. This story air…

 

Audrey McFarlane Appointed to the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse
OTTAWA, April 28, 2014 /CNW/ – Today, Health Minister Rona Ambrose announced the appointment of Audrey McFarlane to the Canadian Centre for Substance Abuse (CCSA) Board of Directors for a three-year term. Ms. McFarlane is currently the Executive …
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Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Huffington Post

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

all 46 news articles »

Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News

 

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