Treating Drug Abuse as a Disease, Not a Crime
Treating Drug Abuse as a Disease, Not a Crime
In a survey released today by the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of people characterized drug abuse is either a “crisis” or a “serious problem” in the U.S. That number hasn’t changed much in nearly twenty years. What has changed is how Americans are …
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Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse on the Rise
The growing alarm to drug abuse is nothing new, but as the number of deaths rise in Fairfield County, Norwalk officials are warning the community of what has become not only a state-wide epidemic, but a local emergency. State-wide drug-related deaths have …
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Prescription drug abuse affecting Pembroke
The top drug problem affecting Pembroke can be found no further than the medicine cabinet. The Pembroke Police Services Board received an education in the extent and nature of the drug trade last week when Detective Constable Paul Hicks of the Upper Ottawa …
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Twice as many men get substance abuse treatment as women
ROCKVILLE, Md. — Twice as many men age 18 and older — 1.2 million — entered substance abuse treatment facilities in 2011, compared to about 609,000 females. A report by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, using data from …
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FDA Approves Quick-Acting Drug to Reverse Prescription Painkiller ODs
“Evzio is the first combination drug-device product designed to deliver a dose of naloxone for administration outside of a health care setting,” Dr. Bob Rappaport, director of the division of anesthesia, analgesia, and addiction products in the FDA's …
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Courts, drugs will be focus of town hall meeting
“The current substance abuse culture in Marion has changed in ways that will shock those who never before considered the possibility that they or their loved ones would ever become addicts, much less heroin addicts,” she said. “Many people do not …
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