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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Carol Falkowski: Addressing drug abuse before it happens
These days, getting high is as prevalent as ever and Minnesotans are losing their lives and limbs because of it. Some may be addicts and others first-time users. Whether it is young people in Mankato dying as the result of using lethal synthetic …
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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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Ask A Trooper: Know the signs of teenage drug abuse
I spent time last week at training, and one of the topics covered is the amount of teen drug abuse, which is on the rise nationally. There are several reasons this trend is occurring. I would like to share some of this information with families, who …
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Summit County hosts annual prescription drug take-back day
“Unfortunately, prescription drug abuse is something we see quite a bit in Summit County,” said Jordan Schultz, coordinator of Healthy Futures Initiative, in the release. “Nationally, over 70 percent of people who abuse prescription pain relievers …
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