Signs of Substance Abuse

Published February 19, 2014

Signs of substance abuse –

Daughter's heroin problem instructs Skokie police

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"I didn't raise a drug addict. I had talks with her. She was a good kid." Newberg shared the signs of heroin use: smaller pupils, a slower and softer voice, nodding off, changing behaviors, lying, depression, being irritable, stolen money and missing …
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Vt. spends millions on addiction-fighting drug that is diverted for street sale

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It used to come only in hexagonal pills (called "stop signs" on the street) but now is primarily prescribed in strips that dissolve under the tongue. The new packaging was intended to make the drug harder to traffic. But people who abuse Suboxone …
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'Alarming' rise seen in drug-addicted infants

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As prescription drug and heroin abuse rises in New Hampshire, doctors are facing a side effect of this trend: babies born addicted to opioids – drugs used to control pain, a condition known as Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS). The state's reported …
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