alcohol and drug abuse

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NEW FEATURE: Help us write our Sunday editorial

Filed under: drug abuse help

Battling alcohol and drug abuse. We've long known of the damage that alcohol abuse — and specifically, but not only, drunken driving — does in our communities. More recently, though, illegal drugs appear to be a rising problem here, with more arrests …
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Blood Disorder Cases Tied to Prescription Painkiller Abuse

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Where Should I Go to Start Over? I Need to Leave. Please Help and Serious Answers Only. Please Read?

Question by Zed: Where should I go to start over? I need to leave. Please help and serious answers only. Please read?
I live in Florida currently. Where should I go to start over? I want to start over?
IVe had suicidal thoughts for a week now. I tried seeking help but I now think that it’s pointless. I just want to take my stuff up and leave to somewhere. I want to leave tonight. I think that the only way to escape these thoughts is start over. Where should I go? Has anyone done anything like this? I don’t plan on talking to anyone anymore. I want to just be alone. Please where would the best place to go be and what should I do? Please don’t say go and talk to someone because I honestly can’t be helped at this point. Please only things related to where I should go and what to do.

Can a Patient Be Turned in for Alcohol And/or Drug Abuse?

Question by wOW ReALLY: Can a patient be turned in for alcohol and/or drug abuse?
Can a doc turn his patient in for alcohol or drug abuse to the police or social services?

Best answer:

Answer by Danim Morem
No. It is their job to diagnose you and to treat you in any way possible. It is a good thing to mention to your doctor if you had recently consumed or used any form of alcohol or drug to help with diagnosis, but they legally cannot turn you in as it is part of their doctor-patient confidentiality guidelines.

EMA Committee Gives Green Light to Alcohol Abuse Drug

EMA Committee Gives Green Light to Alcohol Abuse Drug

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse

An advisory committee to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has recommended that nalmefene ( Selincro, H. Lundbeck A/S), a drug for the reduction of alcohol consumption in adult patients with alcohol dependencies who have a high drinking risk level, …
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Substanceabuse nonprofit downsizes amid financial struggle

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Substance Abuse Making Records

Substance abuse making records

Filed under: alcohol and drug abuse help

WARRENTON — “There's a fairly high rate of drug and alcohol use in Clatsop County teenagers,” said Eric Martin, a professor and substance abuse expert from the University of Oregon, to the people in the bleachers at Warrenton Grade School. In fact …
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“Summit for Danny” Traveling Trophy

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Horrors of Methamphetamines by Rehabs.com Shows Faces Ravaged by

Horrors Of Methamphetamines By Rehabs.com Shows Faces Ravaged By

Filed under: signs of drug abuse

The online poster warns that these are telltale signs of decay unleashed by prolonged, illegal crystal meth use. "I think it's definitely more effective when people can see the outcome of what abusing that substance might be, it becomes more concrete …
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DEA raid ends with ER doctor in trouble over crack cocaine

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