Financial Cost of Drug Addiction – Video Infographic

Published July 2, 2013

Financial Cost of Drug Addiction – Video Infographic – View the infographic as a flat image here: http://www.clarityway.com/blog/the-financial-toll-drug-use-has-on-american-citizens-infographic/ Want to know how …

Drug Abuse-Related Mental Illnesses On the Rise – MOH

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Latest figures available from the Mental Health Department in the Ministry of Health show that there were 440 cases of drug abuse related cases which is 2.8 percent of all mental illness cases observed in 2009, while the number increased in 2010 to 994 …
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Deaths from Prescription Painkiller Overdoses Rise Sharply Among Women

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For the Vital Signs report, CDC analyzed data from the National Vital Statistics System (1999-2010) and the Drug Abuse Warning Network public use file (2004-2010). Previous research has shown that women are more likely to have chronic pain, …
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Marijuana's march toward mainstream confounds feds

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"We're on this hundred-mile-an-hour freight train to legalizing a third addictive substance," says Kevin Sabet, a former drug policy adviser in the Obama administration, lumping marijuana with tobacco and alcohol. Legalization strategist Ethan …
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