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Pamela C. Marsh: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Pamela C. Marsh: National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Filed under: effects of drug abuse

As a prosecutor, I constantly see the devastating effect of drug abuse on individuals whose lives are changed forever after they are convicted of selling and trafficking illegal controlled substances. I also see, up close and personal, the destruction …
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DA to begin prosecution of mothers who use drugs

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Drug Abuse Office Offers Videos for Docs

Drug Abuse Office Offers Videos for Docs

Filed under: drug addiction treatments

"The videos show the way that the physicians interact with these patients, asking them questions that are sensitive and many physicians feel uncomfortable asking," said Nora Volkow, MD, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. "Those that are …
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With rise in prescription drug use comes greater addiction

Filed under: drug addiction treatments

That pattern follows statewide and national trends, trends coupled with rising numbers of people seeking treatment for prescription drug addiction. The sales of prescription opioid pain relievers nationwide ballooned between 1999 and 2010. The Centers …
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Does Anyone Have a # for a Sexual Addiction Hotline?

Question by Christopher: Does anyone have a # for a Sexual Addiction Hotline?
I called 800-551-9888 and I guess it is now a company called “Audix”. I’m in therapy, but would like to know if there is a place I can call when I get ‘triggerred’ or for general support when I need it to help support me to avoid future acting out. Thank you in advance.

Best answer:

Answer by Stubbsy Boy
07851441159. The person should be called Mr. C. Batchelor

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Woman Says Now-Accredited Drug Treatment Court Helped Turn Her Life Around

Woman says now-accredited Drug Treatment Court helped turn her life around

Filed under: drug addiction help now

She is now 18 months sober, and her appearance before several judges Tuesday didn't result in a sentence. Byrd was speaking on behalf of the treatment court, which she said helped her save her own life after decades of addiction. Pennsylvania Supreme …
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Treatment court disposes of drug addictions

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Despite Drawbacks, Many Consider Methadone the Best Treatment for Opiate

Despite drawbacks, many consider methadone the best treatment for opiate

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Methadone, itself an opiate, is used to treat addiction to heroin and other opiates because its effect is gradual and sustained, reducing the desire for other opioid drugs while preventing withdrawal symptoms, according to the National Institute of …
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Rights, Wrongs, and the War on Drugs

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Does It Make More Sense to Put CHEMICALLY ADDICTED People in PRISON for POSSESSION or in REHAB?

Question by Bush is not conservative: Does it make more sense to put CHEMICALLY ADDICTED people in PRISON for POSSESSION or in REHAB?
Addiction is an illness. Narcotics abuse is an illness. Logically, the purchasing, possession and abuse of a drug by an addict is as much of a health concern as it is a legal one.

Narcotics abuse is undoubtedly a more emotionally complicated crime than other nonviolent offenses such as theft and vandalism, but early attempts to curb abuse lacked the necessary breadth to get addicts clean. Incarceration is not an effective method of freeing drug users from the substances on which they depend.