How Lifesaving Drug Narcan Works
How lifesaving drug Narcan works
Haliburda said the use heroin in particular may have grown because physicians are more aware of drug seeking behavior and prescription drug abuse and are prescribing less opiods and other pain killers. “There's less available,” Haliburda said. “The …
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Surveys yet to show link between medical marijuana and teen drug abuse
"We cannot draw a clean link between medical marijuana and shifting drug usage rates,'' said Dr. Wilson Compton, deputy director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Surveys can be unclear because they rely on kids to honestly report their usage.
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Cutler's Corner: The many facets of substance abuse
Finally, statistics tell us that the pattern of drug addiction often starts with prescription drug abuse, in some cases for innocent reasons such as a sports injury. Those who get addicted to painkillers will often turn to heroin, which is far cheaper …
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