Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
Everyone knows someone who has been seriously affected by prescription drug abuse. Yet, when a report issued late last year revealed that the leading cause of accidental death in the United States is drug overdose — primarily from prescription drugs …
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Ohio's Heroin Deaths Rising
Ohio's heroin deaths rising
The heroin deaths represent a dramatic shift in the nature of drug overdoses in Ohio, which for most of the past decade were driven primarily by the abuse of powerful prescription painkillers. Drug overdose … To some living in Dayton, the latest …
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Are There Really Alternative Forms of Treatment for Cancer?
Question by Cerantine: Are there really alternative forms of treatment for cancer?
I was told that in Mexico there is 100% effective treatment of cancer by Hydrogen Peroxide types of treatment and also 100% effective forms of treatment by the use of a Multi-wave Oscillator.… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
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… Continue reading
Caught Dealing Painkillers at Seattle Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings, Vietnam …
Caught dealing painkillers at Seattle Alcoholics Anonymous meetings, Vietnam …
A Seattle resident, Shepard was caught in one of the more troubling drug crimes imaginable – he was dealing powerful prescription painkillers to addicts he courted through treatment programs. For a healthier man, the federal drug crime conviction that …… Continue reading
Human Dignity Foundation Awards Stepping Stone $32K
Human Dignity Foundation awards Stepping Stone K
Stepping Stone of San Diego, which offers a nationally acclaimed residential drug-and-alcohol-addiction treatment program to the LGBT community and people impacted by HIV/AIDS, is $ 32,000 richer thanks to two grants recently awarded by the San …
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Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Rise in Heroin Use
Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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