Prescription Painkillers 'Like Loaded Guns' for Teens
Prescription painkillers 'like loaded guns' for teens
Filed under: teen drug abuse
(Source: Partnership for a Drug Free America); Nearly half (49 percent) of all college students either binge drink, use illicit drugs or misuse prescription drugs. (Source: Center for Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University); Every day 2 …
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A snapshot of the Ottawa teen pot smoker
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Schara One of 20 Winners of Case Foundation Award
Schara one of 20 winners of Case Foundation award
Filed under: drug abuse foundation
Schara, a senior at Reedsburg Area High School, started the program WI P2D2 (Wisconsin Prescription Pill and Drug Disposal) that has collected more than 900,000 pounds of unused prescription drugs, curtailing over-the-counter drug abuse. Together with …
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Suicide prevention forum
Filed under: drug abuse foundation
Some indicators include: depression, alcohol or drug abuse, PTSD, and eating and personality disorders. "If I had known more about the symptoms of suicide and what to do and how to help somebody, I may have been … American Foundation for Suicide …
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Teen Prescription Drug Abuse: What Parents Should Know
Teen prescription drug abuse: What Parents Should Know
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
Yesterday, Justina McIntyre described how her son Ronnie Powell, 19, a Souderton High School graduate, died in 2008 after overdosing on prescription painkillers drugs. Today she talks about what parents should know and do to help protect their kids and …
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Nurse's license suspended over prescription drug use, report shows
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Native American Answers Only: What Are Your Thoughts of Natives That Don’t Get the Helping Hand They Deserve?
Question by REUBEN B: Native American answers only: What are your thoughts of natives that don’t get the helping hand they deserve?
like how natives are just pushed to the side in health care, drug treatments and the likes. most natives who are charged with crimes as they call them like alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and homelessness. they really don’t try to get the natives in treatment they just let them go home where they will more than likely turn back to the vises that are plaguing the native community. just want to know your native thoughts on such a dire situation.