Letters: Drug Abuse Starts With the Individual
Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal …
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Growing prescription drug abuse in India says UN report
Prescription drug abuse is growing in India and is a serious problem in South Asia, according to a UN report which said drugs enter the region’s illicit markets through various channels, being diverted from India’s pharma industry and smuggled from …
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New campus coalition for alcohol, drug abuse prevention formed
1:23 p.m., March 6, 2014–The newly formed Campus Coalition for Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Prevention held its inaugural meeting earlier this semester to begin expanding and advancing alcohol prevention initiatives at the University of Delaware.
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Residents' Demo Over Drug Abuse
BONDENI residents in Mvita constituency on Tuesday afternoon protested over the increased use of drugs by youths. The residents led by the village elder Mohamed Rashid and Imams from five mosques said youths have become criminals for indulging in …
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Indy Counselor Cites Rising Drug Abuse Among Seniors
Substance abuse currently affects about 17 percent of the senior population and by 2020, that figure is expected to double. Scott Watson of Heartland Intervention says alcohol and prescription drug abuse are the most prominent form of drug abuse in …
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