Prescription drugs: 'No single solution' to resolve addiction
Mr. Marconi added that the community is doing everything in its power to combat the growing crisis of drug abuse and addiction. But there is no single solution to the problem. “I don't know what exactly the answer is here and that's the frustrating …
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The Startling Rise Of Baby Boomer Drug Abuse
Baby boomers have become addicted to drugs at an alarming rate. The most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, released in 2012, found illicit drug use among people between the ages of 55 and 59 had increased more than any other group.
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Spice Addiction Treatment and Synthetic Marijuana Drug Rehab Announced by …
Recovery Associates is helping to curb this drug epidemic with a new treatment program for those addicted to spice and synthetic marijuana. According to research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, synthetic marijuana has become the second-most …
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Nonprofit dispersing money to fight substance abuse and addiction
A nonprofit group that was formed to tackle substance abuse and addiction among young people in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle is dissolving, said Berkeley County Councilman Douglas E. Copenhaver Jr., who led the organization. Helping Hands …
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'Clean,' by David Sheff
It must be the purest agony to be the parent of a child succumbing to drug addiction. David Sheff's previous book was an account of his son Nic's descent from a thoughtful boy to a sullen pothead to a self-destructive methamphetamine fiend, and of his …
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Isabel Allende on "Maya's Notebook," Drug Addiction, 1973 Chilean Coup …
The best-selling Chilean novelist Isabel Allende is out with a new book, "Maya's Notebook: A Novel." It tells the story of a teenager named Maya Vidal and her struggles with drug addiction, grief and history. Although a work of fiction, the story is …
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Tom Sizemore discusses drug abuse in autobiographical book
It refers to a man who, by his own admission, is nothing but a "spoiled movie star," "an arrogant fool" who at one point is a "hope-to-die" an addict. The book, which was released on April 9, gives the reader a a behind-the-scenes look at the actor's …
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David Sheff: Watching my son become a drug addict
I wrote about the years our family lived through his addiction in the book Beautiful Boy. Readers of it and of Nic's own books — a pair of memoirs, Tweak: Growing Up on Methamphetamines and We All Fall Down— know many of the gory details. Over the …
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Drug Addiction in Teens
According to Okuku, out of every five smokers, one will develop cancer. Drug abuse can also lead to mental illness, loss of jobs or dropping out of school. In most cases, addicts commit crimes under the influence of drugs, although this may not save …
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Prescription drug addiction: an equal-opportunity disease
Now the new treatment center offers sixteen beds that are filling up quickly and roughly 20 local jobs for employees. “Drug addiction is an equal opportunity disease and it affects everyone,” said Nauts. “Shaking loose of an addiction to prescription …
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Cooper: Homeless missionary pedals his beliefs
Several years ago, in the midst of the Great Recession, Peters was laid off from his Syracuse job in the automobile parts field. … "I thought most [participants] were drunks and drug addicts," he says, "but they were just looking for a hand up, not a …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: CDC Answers Your Questions
PBS NewsHour recently aired a report on prescription drug abuse that led viewers to ask many questions. We asked the CDC to answer them, below. One in 20 people in the United States say they've used prescription painkillers for non-medical reasons in …
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Lyons: Drug courts offer sober approach to drug abuse
Drug addiction is a major societal problem with an annual treatment cost of $ 193 billion each year in crime, lost productivity and health-care costs, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. … There's one reason for the growth: Drug courts …
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Into Action Alcohol and Drug Treatment Center is Now Offering Fitness …
Into Action Treatment has recently started a morning exercise program for their clients and this addition will only help improve their clients' lives in recovery. Andrey Rossin is the founder of alcohol and drug rehab facility and he had this to say …
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Into Action Drug and Alcohol Rehab Center Adds Softball to their Weekend …
Andrey Rossin is the founder of the only Hyannis format Big Book Step Study Treatment center in the world and he had this to say about the new softball program, "Our clients have been enjoying playing softball, and we wanted to make it a more permanent …
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State senators urged to provide funds for alcohol, drug treatment
CONCORD – Alcohol and drug abuse prevention advocates have come up with a unique way to reach out directly to their state senators to ask for more funding for treatment and prevention programs. Each state senator has begun receiving video postcards …
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Common-sense drug addiction treatment needed
An investigation of Medicaid drug addiction programs found that it can cost taxpayers hundreds of dollars a day not to treat an addict – but merely to transport him to a clinic. It seems … Ohio has it half right in that respect – but needs to finish …
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Drug Addiction in Teens
According to Okuku, out of every five smokers, one will develop cancer. Drug abuse can also lead to mental illness, loss of jobs or dropping out of school. In most cases, addicts commit crimes under the influence of drugs, although this may not save …
Read more on AllAfrica.com