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Catawba/Alexander News

Catawba/Alexander News

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Vagus Nerve Stimulator Therapy is anon-drug treatment to help reduce the frequency of seizures in those suffering from epilepsy. RSVP to … Featured artists include Kim Ellington of the Catawba Valley Pottery Center at Catawba Valley Community College …
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MURRIETA: Appellate court reverses oxycondone physician sentence

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Two of the three judges on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said Tuesday, Aug, 21, that U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips should have on her own initiative called a competency hearing for psychiatrist Joel Stanley Dreyer, who was 73 when …
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UVa Research Shows Drug's Promise in Fighting Meth Addiction

UVa research shows drug's promise in fighting meth addiction

Filed under: Virginia Drug Abuse

UVa research shows drug's promise in fighting meth addiction … treatment, said University of Virginia School of Medicine researcher Dr. Bankole A. Johnson.
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W.Va. ground zero in fight against addiction

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West Virginia is ground zero in the fight against prescription drug abuse, in many ways. During some years, we lead the nation in the number of drug overdose …
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Tighter Controls Needed on Prescription Drugs

Tighter controls needed on prescription drugs

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Prescription drug abuse is the No. 1 drug problem in West Virginia, particularly in the southern counties. The US Senate this week overwhelmingly passed an amendment to an bill reauthorizing the Food and Drug Administration that would reclassify …
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Ohio man pleads guilty to selling oxycodone

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What Should I Do About My Drug Abuse?

Question by Abby: What should I do about my drug abuse?
Ok, so I just graduated high school at the top of my class. I made really good grades, did well in sports, won tons of awards blah blah blah. Basically, If everyone didn’t know that I abused drugs on a daily basis, no one would suspect anything because it doesn’t affect my life in a public way. Its a little strange that I abuse substances so frequently because I have absolutely no family history of substance abuse and my two older brothers were golden children who never even drank in high school and only drank in college in party situations. However, I unquestionably have a substance abuse problem. I smoke weed everyday, usually multiple times. I drink close to everyday, probably 4-5 times a week (not always with my friends). I do cocaine fairly regularly. I literally have to take Adderall if I have a lot of school work I need to do (during the school year about once a week). And I mix other drugs in with those occasionally too. While my abuse started out with partying, I now do drugs or drink all the time (before school, before work, before any time I have to spend with my family and of course at parties). My parents really don’t know that I have a problem, they know I’m a little wild but only suspect me of drinking occasionally. The problem is I would never ask my parents to send me to rehab plus I’m going to the University of Virginia in about a month. What I’m most scared about is that I will go absolutely out of control in college where substances are even more present than they are in my life now. UVA is pretty well known for alcohol, marijuana and most notably cocaine. I know I’m going to end up screwing my life up but I just can’t stop. I know I have a lot of things that could be worked out if I saw a therapist but I don’t know how I would do that either. I pretty much feel stuck and I don’t know where to turn anymore.
Oh, I also wanted to add that I’m not an addict(yet). The problem isn’t that I would suffer withdrawals because not using a particular substance doesn’t really affect me at all because I switch up the drugs that I abuse. I know if I continue on this path I’m going to have alot of problems but I don’t have any fun when I’m not high on something. Life without substances seems so much more strenuous and boring and I’ve abused drugs since I was 12 or 13. I can’t even imagine being sober at college and I honestly don’t really think that thats an option. I just want to be able to drink socially and moderately but it seems so crazy and unrealistic to me.

Three Health Care Providers Join Substance Abuse Recovery Program

Three Health Care Providers Join Substance Abuse Recovery Program

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By West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline MORGANTOWN, W.Va., April 19, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — Three comprehensive behavioral health care centers have become referral sites for the West Virginia Prescription Drug Abuse Quitline to assist in …
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LeNelle Mozell, addiction specialist, of Arlington County, Va., sees rising

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The Truth About Homeopathy?

Question by : The Truth about Homeopathy?
The First U.S. Homeopathic School
Students of Hahnemann founded the first homeopathic medical school in the United States in the late 1800’s. It gained recognition because of its success in treating the many disease epidemics rampant at the time — including scarlet fever, typhoid, cholera and yellow fever.
The school’s method of treatment became very popular in the early 1900’s. At that time, there were 22 homeopathic medical schools, 100 homeopathic hospitals and over 1,000 homeopathic pharmacies. Boston University, Stanford University and New York Medical College were among those educational institutions that were teaching homeopathy. However, it was not long after this period of time (in the early 1920’s) that many of the schools closed — mostly due to the decline of homeopathy’s popularity which was greatly effected by the American Medical Association. This was also around the time when modern drug companies began releasing drugs that were easy to administer to patients, a trend that also contributed to the decline of homeopathy.