Vermont Faces Opiate Drug Abuse Crisis
Vermont faces opiate drug abuse crisis
About 4,000 Vermonters are in drug treatment for opiates, such as Oxycontin and heroin. Since the year 2000, Vermont has seen nearly an 800 percent increase in opiate drug abuse. “It’s an illness we need to treat, talk about and stop being afraid of …
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Drug abuse screening bill OK’d by Indiana House
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A contentious bill to screen welfare recipients for drug abuse and limit residents to buy only “nutritional” foods with food stamps is moving forward. State representatives voted 71-22 in favor of the bill Tuesday. The bill would …
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Legalisation helped halve all drug abuse
In response to Marie O’Connor (Letters’ January 27) I am compelled to share with you a few facts I have come across concerning cannabis. Portugal decriminalised all drugs 12 years ago, not just cannabis, all drugs, and the result was that drug abuse has …
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Drugs of abuse – what do they do to the brain? (BoB 2012 L5 – Prof Graeme Henderson) — Drugs of abuse – what do they do to the brain? (BoB 2012 L5 – Prof Graeme Henderson) The fifth Best of Bristol Lecture of 2012 – the BoB Lectures are a stude…
Vermont faces opiate drug abuse crisis
The two-term Democrat says devoting his entire State of the State speech to drug abuse was necessary, because 80 percent of inmates in Vermont jails are there on drug-related charges; serious crimes are up 46 percent over the past five years; and last …
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Drug abuse screening bill OK'd by Indiana House
State representatives voted 71-22 in favor of the bill Tuesday. The bill would require residents who receive money from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to take a questionnaire screening for substance abuse and possibly face drug testing. The …
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