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Causes of Drug Abuse: Legalizing Drugs Won’t Prevent Abuse – CNN

Causes of Drug Abuse: Legalizing drugs won’t prevent abuse – CNN
First, we do not know the immediate cause of Houston’s death … legalization does not prevent the abuse and misuse of drugs. In fact, it accelerates it. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, prescription drug abuse is …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Drug deaths surpass car accident fatalities – msnbc.com
Prescription drug abuse is now considered the number one cause of death among Florida residents. “Sometimes if it doesn’t affect us- then we don’t know or care,” says Southwest Florida Addiction Services Program Director Alex Garcia-Barbon. In Southwest …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Prescription abuse ‘epidemic’ in Houston – msnbc.com
As investigators determine the cause of Whitney Houston’s death … The combination of it all is bringing new light to the continuing problem of prescription drug abuse nationwide.  Local 2 Investigates is looking into why Houston has been …
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Drug Addiction: Experts Call for National Strategy to Fight Prescription Drug Addiction – Winnipeg Free Press

Drug Addiction: Experts call for national strategy to fight prescription drug addiction – Winnipeg Free Press

Experts call for national strategy to fight prescription drug addiction
Winnipeg Free Press
TORONTO – Addiction experts are applauding new provincial restrictions on OxyContin and the drug replacing it, but say Canada needs a national strategy to tackle widespread abuse of prescription painkillers. Ontario's decision last week to remove

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Drug Addiction: ‘Severe’ drug addict jailed after busts – Stuff.co.nz

'Severe' drug addict jailed after busts
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Defence counsel Tim Fournier said Hamish Houghton Chisholm, 33, had been given an opportunity, but did not capitalise on it because of his severe drug addiction. He was arrested in a series of raids on clandestine laboratories manufacturing the drug P

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Drug Addiction: Narconon East US Long Term Drug Rehab Mourns the Loss of Pop Icon Whitney Houston – PR Web (press release)

Drug Addiction: Death Puts Focus on Prescription Drug Addiction – New Jersey Herald

Drug Addiction: death puts focus on prescription drug addiction – New Jersey Herald


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death puts focus on prescription drug addiction
New Jersey Herald
For years, Houston had struggled with cocaine, marijuana, and prescription drug addition. "It's tragic, but if there is any good that comes out of this is a lot of discussion and a lot of awareness," said Becky Carlson, assistant director of the Center
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Whitney Houston's Family Blames Bobby Brown for Her Drug ProblemsUs Magazine
Posted On Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 02:03:53 AMMumbai Mirror
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Drug Addiction: Bill O’Reilly: Why the media will not tell you the truth about Whitney Houston … – Fox News

Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Top Focus in AZ – msnbc.com

Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse top focus in AZ – msnbc.com
TUCSON – The Arizona Substance Abuse Partnership will meet Thursday to talk about drug abuse. As the problem with meth has decreased, it’s now prescription drugs that are an issue in the state. Pinal County is on the forefront of the fight.
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Drug Abuse: Why Prescription Drug Addiction Is Growing Among Teens – YAHOO!
according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Kids start using prescription drugs for the same reasons McDonald did – to deaden difficult feelings, to fit in with their peers – but also because they believe prescription drugs must be safer …
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Drug Abuse: After Whitney Houston’s death, New York must crack down on pill-pushing doctors – New York Daily News
Popular music icon Whitney Houston is laid to rest Saturday, her life ended amid reports of prescription drug abuse. May her troubled soul find peace. And may the authorities — notably the New York State Health Department — get serious about …
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Drug Abuse: Lebanon raid targets prescription drug abuse – Nashville Tennessean
Police swept through Lebanon on Friday morning arresting 19 people suspected of illegally selling prescription drugs. Most were low-level dealers, said Lebanon Police Chief Scott Bowen. “Sometimes we target the top guys who are dealing drugs …
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Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse With a National Online Database – Forbes

Prescription Drug Abuse: Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse With A National Online Database – Forbes


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Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse With A National Online Database
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After watching the events of this past week unfold with the untimely death of Whitney Houston, and being reminded of the fate of Michael Jackson, my mind shifts to the ever present problem of prescription drug abuse. As a practicing ER physician,
Why Prescription Drug Addiction Is Growing Among TeensLiveScience.com
How to Curb Prescription Drug AbuseNew York Times
Death of Whitney Houston Needs to Put Focus on Prescription Drug AbuseStop Oxy
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Senator Hannon Plan To Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – NewsLI

Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse-a National Online Database

Drug Abuse: Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse-A National Online Database
?? After watching the events of this past week unfold with the untimely death of Whitney -and being reminded of the fate of Michael as well, my mind shifts to the ever present problem of prescription drug abuse. As a practicing ER physician, I have encountered many patients who have come to the hospital requesting …
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Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse hearings planned after Whitney Houston's death
PALM SPRINGS — Rep. Mary Bono Mack, R-Palm Springs, plans to hold a series of congressional hearings on prescription drug abuse — a problem she said was highlighted by the weekend death of singer Whitney Houston.
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Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse top focus in AZ
TUCSON – The Arizona Substance Abuse Partnership will meet Thursday to talk about drug abuse. As the problem with meth has decreased, it's now prescription drugs that are an issue in the state.
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Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse Crackdown Hits CVS and Drug Wholesaler
A crackdown by the Drug Enforcement Administration against two big health care companies this month signals that the Obama administration is putting muscle behind its effort to combat prescription drug abuse.
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