Drug Abuse

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Casual pot use causes brain abnormalities in young: study
Young, casual marijuana smokers experience potentially harmful changes to their brains, with the drug altering regions of the mind related to motivation and emotion, researchers found. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Casual pot use causes brain abnormalities in the young: US study
Young, casual marijuana smokers experience potentially harmful changes to their brains, with the drug altering regions of the mind related to motivation and emotion, researchers found. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

East End Heroin Task Force Formed to Battle Growing Threat
State government leaders announced this week an initiative aimed at combating heroin abuse on the East End, as law enforcement, public health and court officials acknowledged the growing threat the drug—and other opioids—in Suffolk County. Causes of Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results    Read more...

Fighting our drug abuse problem goes beyond arrests
Recently, there has been a push by the local drug task forces to try and relinquish the hold of drugs and drug monies on the Mid-Ohio Valley. Our papers have been littered and our local evening news, almost daily, holds the headlines of another drug …
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Center for Substance Abuse Prevention Director Fran Harding Discusses Underage Drinking Prevention – In this interview, Fran Harding, Director of SAMHSA’s Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP), discusses the importance of talking to children early abo…

Northampton Prevention Coalition leader moving on to new job with drug abuse …
The city's Prevention Coalition began as a task force in 2008 managed by SPIFFY. In 2010, the group was awarded a five-year grant from the National Drug Free Communities Support Program to expand its substance abuse prevention work with Northampton …
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Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition asks, “Where should funds be spent?”
GRAFTON – Taylor County Family Resource Network Director Walesca Marrero welcomed a room filled with concerned officials, parents and residents of Taylor County last Thursday, as they met to discuss the growing issue of prescription drug abuse.
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Fort Lauderdale Drug and Alcohol Treatment Facility Continues Successful Family Night in April
Cornerstone Recovery Center’s monthly Family Night is Friday, April 25th from 6pm – 8pm (PRWeb April 15, 2014) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/drug-alcohol-treatment/family-night-april/prweb11763425.htm Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Forum to Focus on Drug Addiction
The state's new Joint Senate Task Force on Heroin and Opioid Addiction will host a forum in Rochester today. Drug Addiction – Yahoo News Search Results

Mayors task force discusses drug abuse prevention, treatment
ELKTON — Mayors from Cecil County's eight towns continue to widen their net of information and partners in their quest to help the county reduce a substance abuse problem that all agree has gotten out of hand. An ambitious agenda with six potential …
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Greater access to addiction treatment, support services for family, friends needed
… the state judicial system, along with social service agencies met at the Webster Town Hall to discuss what needs to be done to responding to an increasing number of overdose incidents and how best to improve the prevention and treatment of drug abuse.
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Mindfulness Meditation May Reduce Drug User Relapse
In the study, 286 people who had been treated for substance abuse were assigned to receive one of three therapies after their initial treatment: a program that involved only group discussions, a "relapse- prevention" therapy that involved learning to …
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Regional Program on Substance Abuse Scheduled at Annandale High School
Parents, guardians, and their middle and high school-aged teens are invited to attend “Protecting Against the Realities of Substance Abuse,” a program organized by Parents Reaching Out To Educate Communities Together (P.R.O.T.E.C.T.), a task force of …
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Nurse's license suspended for alleged drug abuse
PROVIDENCE,R.I. –The state health director has suspended the license of a registered nurse with a history of substance abuse after he failed a drug test and admitted to taking a dose from an old prescription of the opioid Tramadol. Arthur L. Demedeiros …
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Tribes launch multi-faceted offensive to combat substance abuse
PABLO – Tribal officials say more stringent rules for receiving housing assistance, and pharmaceuticals have been put in place in the four months since the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Council promised to aggressively combat substance abuse …
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