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Prescription for Addiction - WSJ.com: "The U.S. spends about $15 billion a year fighting illegal drugs, often on foreign soil. But America's deadliest drug epidemic begins and ends at home. More than 15,000 Americans now die annually after overdosing on prescription painkillers called opioids, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—more than from heroin, cocaine and all other illegal drugs combined. . . . The morning of July 4, Ms. Kinkade's boyfriend found her sitting cross-legged and slumped in his room at a white, low-slung house tucked behind a trailer park. The medical examiner said she died from a drug cocktail including oxycodone, methadone and methamphetamine."
Killing Addiction
Wall Street Journal (blog)
The U.S. spends about $15 billion a year fighting illegal drugs, often on foreign soil. But America's deadliest drug epidemic begins and ends at home. More than 15,000 Americans now die annually after overdosing on prescription painkillers called ...
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Martin Sheen advocates for addiction recovery at Western Michigan University
Western Herald
For the past several years, Sheen has been heavily involved in promoting drug courts and treatment programs for people like himself who have battled addiction with alcohol or drugs. Sheen acknowledged his own alcoholism and expressed his thankfulness...
Western Herald
Heroin addiction a growing scourge
Bethany Beach Wave
“I see value in the drug court for individuals who are ready to get help. It certainly provides them with the most amount of resources a person can hope to get through the judicial system to beat theiraddiction and stabilize their life. ... (We're ...
Opioid addiction can be overcome through medication
Chicago Daily Herald
Rapid detox can be dangerous and may not be effective for treating addiction. Ask the doctor who prescribed oxycodone for you if one of the drugs discussed above would help to overcome youraddiction. There may also be another drug less addictive than ...
Should drug addicts be treated as criminals?
The Voice Online
Drug addiction is a disease and although I understand that no one ever forced anyone to inject or insert illegal poisonous substances into their bodies, people have to understand no one ever woke up with the desire to grow up and become a drug addict...
The Voice Online
Drug Plague: Afghan poppy harvest infects India
RT
Published on Oct 7, 2012 by RussiaToday. Afghan heroin plague plunges once blooming region of India into addiction hole. RT's Priya Shridhar reports. RT LIVE http://rt.com/on-air. Subscribe to RT!http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user= ...
Can drug services cope with an influx of the 'Trainspotting generation'?
The Guardian
The good news, according to the latest government figures, is that the number of young adults seeking treatment for heroin addiction is falling, a near two-thirds drop in six years. But then there is the not so good news. And it is something drug ...
The Guardian
POLITICAL NOTEBOOK: AG's office turning attention to painkiller addiction
Evansville Courier & Press
Zoeller's announcement came after he spoke at a ceremony for adults who had completed a drugcourt program in Clark County, Ind. "Fighting the cruel grip of drug addiction is an incredible challenge, and we must do more as a state to support these ...
Vizag needs de-addiction centre
Times of India
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Government Hospital for Mental Care (GHMC) here is getting considerable cases related to alcohol and drug addiction. With the excise policy becoming stringent, many of them are being admitted with withdrawal symptoms of alcohol ...
Former film-maker helps drug addicts rejoin Afghan society
Nzweek
Studies show that drug addiction in Afghanistan is often the result of poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, trauma from continuing conflicts, migration, and illusions about the calming effects ofdrugs. “It was the maternal instinct that encouraged me to ...
Phoenix House Clients Talk Teen Prescription Drug Addiction
By alharris
Two Phoenix House clients, Tiffeny and Jamie Lynn, tell WABC News that they developed addictions to prescription drugs after friends and family offered their leftover pills. “A family member introduced me to narcotics, Vicodin, and they said it ...
Phoenix House
Aunt Denies Drug Addiction Because Pills Are Prescribed - Yahoo ...
From Yahoo! News: DEAR ABBY: My Aunt "Betty," with whom I have always been close, is 68 and retired. She is abusing prescription drugs and spends several ...
news.yahoo.com/aunt-denies-drug-addiction-because-pills-pre...
The Gate of Hell: Prescription Drug Addiction
Timothy Dalrymple, who blogs at Philosophical Fragments, wrote a compelling account of prescription drug addiction in a post titled (oddly enough) Overcoming ...
www.patheos.com/.../the-gate-of-hell-prescription-drug-addict...
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