Letters: Drug Abuse Starts With the Individual
Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal …
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Sen. Markey to discuss drug abuse crisis in Mass.
Markey is planning to speak on what he’s calling the drug abuse crisis at a noon press conference Friday at the Holyoke Health Center. Markey is calling for expanding the use of drug treatments to prevent opiate overdose deaths and for …
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Ex-NBA player on drug abuse to Townsend kids: 'Tell on that friend'
Fourteen years later, he was still struggling with a drug addiction that had caused him to leave warm-ups before Celtics games to meet drug dealers, relapse on the day of the birth of one of his children, and nearly die after crashing his car into a …
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Video contest for high school, middle school students to fight drug use
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, WI (WHBL) – A two-pronged effort to raise awareness among high schoolers and middle schoolers in Sheboygan County about addictions and drugs gets underway Friday. Captain Jim Veeser of the Sheboygan Police Department …
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Sources For Prescription Drugs Often Come From Friends And Family
A new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that most people who abuse prescription painkillers get their fix from friends and family, while those who chronically abuse the addictive opioids most …
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