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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Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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Growing prescription drug abuse in India says UN report
Prescription drug abuse is growing in India and is a serious problem in South Asia, according to a UN report which said drugs enter the region’s illicit markets through various channels, being diverted from India’s pharma industry and smuggled from …
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Experts say early drug use leads to more significant effects
TOPEKA, Kan.–According to the Kansas Communities that Care student survey, more than one fifth of students in Shawnee County report trying marijuana at least once. Erin Evanson-Lass, a clinician for Family Service & Guidance Center, said, “It's readily …
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Leisl Winter's tale: A story of overcoming alcohol and drug abuse
Liesl Winter is a different person than she was a few years ago. As a teen, Winter was sent to rehab for alcohol and drug use. Now she's a student at Salisbury University studying health sciences so she can help others be as healthy as they can be.
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