How Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs
How Medical Pot Is Helping Seniors Get Off (Prescription) Drugs
[rewrite]The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a monopoly on the legal supply of marijuana for research purposes. Because NIDA is more focused on studying marijuana abuse than its potential benefits, researchers in the U.S. have had difficulty getting …[/rewrite]
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When A Prescription For Pain Pills Becomes A Gateway To Addiction
[rewrite]And while there may be some doctors who knowingly prescribe too many painkillers, most are like me and struggle with how to responsibly help patients in pain without driving them to addiction. There are some policies that attempt to reign in chronic …[/rewrite]
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Helping Kids Fight Drug & Alcohol Abuse
Helping Kids Fight Drug & Alcohol Abuse — ‘Reclaiming Futures’ program provides treatment, support instead of prison.
Prescription drug abuse task force makes progress
[rewrite]Anyone looking for more information on prescription drug abuse in Indiana or how to find help for their addiction can find it at the website created by the Attorney General's office at www.in.gov/bitterpill. Additionally, students can receive free …[/rewrite]
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Old shoes can help fight drug abuse
[rewrite]… COUNTY — Gently used shoes could help those struggling with addiction. Graham County Substance Abuse Coalition and Students Against Destructive Decisions are holding a Walk Past Drugs fund-raiser and are collecting gently used and new shoes.[/rewrite]
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Addiction Treatment Helps Normalize Memory
Addiction Treatment Helps Normalize Memory — Watch Dr. David Sack talk about the memory loss suffered by long-term alcoholics and drug abusers and how addiction treatment helps normalize memory. To lear…
Buffalo Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
[rewrite]A Buffalo treatment center is pleased to announce that programs to help adults and adolescents end their alcohol and drug addiction are now available. Alcohol, cocaine, heroin, and Oxycontin are just a few of the substances that the treatment center …[/rewrite]
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Parent With Prescription Drug Addiction?
Question by writeyoualetter: Parent with prescription drug addiction?
[rewrite]So my mother is addicted to Morphine, Oxys, Hydrocodone/ine, Muscle Relaxers, Anti-Naseau pills and Tylenol. We are extremely poor. Me and my dad work, she doesn’t. Because he has to buy her so much stuff, I had to get a job to support myself. I’m a senior in college.
Everyday feels like an uphill battle to stay alive. I wake up every morning and think, okay, today I’m going to be alive to go back to bed. But some days it’s really hard to make it back.
Drug Rehabs in Virginia | Call 800-303-2938 for Details
Drug Rehabs in Virginia | Call 800-839-1682 For Details — Drug Rehabs in Virginia – Call 800-839-1682 For Details Drug Rehab is what drug addicts need in order to recover from their addiction to drugs. The Drug Reha…
W.Va. Law Symposium talks prescription drug abuse
[rewrite]The event included a panel of honorable speakers, including Robert McKinney, the Counsel to West Virginia Adult and Juvenile Drug Courts; Michael Barnes, the executive director of the nonprofit Center for Lawful Access and Abuse Deterrence; and Adam …[/rewrite]
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DARE Officers Use Prescott Schools as Last Stop to Become Certified
DARE officers use Prescott Schools as last stop to become certified
[rewrite]They were there to teach students at Malone Elementary and Prescott Middle School to complete their final steps in becoming Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) officers. Advertisement. “I was much more comfortable in front of these kids than in …[/rewrite]
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Humane Society of Harrison County to Hold Valentine's Day Adoption Event
[rewrite]The law students, faculty and speakers discussed prescription drug abuse. Speakers … animals here at the shelter. When we went to Walmart one time we had two cats adopted there that day, and then someone came and adopted a dog they saw a picture of.[/rewrite]
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