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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Ridge High School — Parental group launched to join anti-drug crusade
BERNARDS TWP. – Rising concerns about substance abuse in the schools have gone beyond the talking stage, with parents mobilizing to act. A new coalition, Parents4SubstanceFreeKids, was formed in late February and has already drawn some 200 …
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No, Diet Coke Is Not Encouraging Drug Abuse
You can always tell the difference between genuine concerns about drug use and anti-drug hysteria by how upset someone is at the possibility that someone, somewhere, might feel pleasure at something other than the righteous feeling you get when you eat …
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Lyme-Old Lyme drug, alcohol, tobacco survey among teens raises familiar …
The presentation focused on several factors, including peer and parent disapproval of drugs and alcohol use, that the survey found was correlated to lower alcohol and drug use. Speakers also addressed the need to make it harder and less acceptable for …
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