Prescription drug overdoses now kill more people than car accidents

Prescription Drug Addiction: Rise Endangers Celebrities, Teens, and Us
Forbes
Would it surprise you to learn that prescription drug overdoses now kill more people than car accidents? Somehow that message doesn't seem to be getting out, says the CDC, which now calls prescription drug abuse an epidemic. Over the past 20 years, the ...

National Survey Outlines Drug Use in Schools
Education Week News
titled “National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XVII: Teens,” was produced by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. The results of the survey were garnered asking questions to 1,003 teens, ...

Drug addiction drags girls deep into crime
Times of India
SURAT: The arrest of seven youths, including two girls from Amroli on Sunday with drugs, has thrown up startling revelations about how girls in Surat are resorting to crime after crime to satisfy their drug addiction. Heena Safiwala (23) had ...

Yoga Aids in Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction
Yahoo! Sports
Colin Farrell, a 36-year old actor, recently went public about his love for yoga and how it has helped him to recover from drug and alcohol addiction. Farrell is not the only person who has turned to yoga as a means to recovery. In fact, some addiction ...

Demi Moore Writing Tell-All Book: Ashton Kutcher Marriage, Drug Addiction, More
Books & Review
The years may have been kind to Demi Moore, but with the announcement that she's currently writing a tell-all book, it doesn't look as though she'll be returning the favor. The actress, who split from Ashton Kutcher in November 2011 after seven years ...

Books & Review

New drug, Vivitrol, helped woman finally kick her addiction
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
Jackie D. says Vivitrol dramatically changed and perhaps even saved her life after she spent the better part of eight years addicted to opiates, pouring every penny of her paychecks into drugs with which she was obsessed. Vivitrol is the newest weapon ...

Madchild Admits Wasting 3 Million Dollars On Drugs, "Dope Sick" & Letting ...
HipHopDX
Madchild: Well, after losing three million dollars to my drug addiction and being flat broke, 55 pounds overweight, my left arm was numb and my lips were purple. I remember driving around, feeling like I was about to have a heart attack. I looked in ...

HipHopDX

It takes 730 prescription drug addicted babies to get political attention
Examiner.com
In fact, cannabinoids receptors in the human brain are designed to absorb the psychoactive properties of marijuana, which has been found by doctors to help curbaddiction to other drugs (pg. 46). "The Endocannabinoid System (ES) is a physiological ...

Examiner.com

Pink Almost Died From Drug Overdose In 1995?!
PerezHilton.com
... soon-to-be released album The Truth About Love, which whets America's musical appetite September 18th! [Image via WENN.] Tags: 1995, addiction, death, drugs, new album, overdose, pink, sad, singer, sobriety, teenager, the truth about love. Email...