million sought for drug addiction treatment programs
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Lawmakers push for drug abuse treatment, recovery funding
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Mind control: Alcohol, drug addiction stew in the brain
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Holder: Heroin an urgent 'public health crisis'
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Blumenthal, DeLauro: E-hookahs attractive, dangerous, and marketed to children
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Question by brittany m: I have a few questions for a paper on Drug Abuse. Please help.?
How do people behave when they are addicted to drugs?
(please put the source – where you got the information)

What are the treatments for Drug Abuse?
(please put the source – where you got the information)

How do you prevent Drug Abuse?
(please put the source – where you got the information)

What is the origin of Drug Abuse? Who started it? Where did it come from?
I think it was the Sumerians but I’m not sure.
(please put the source – where you got the information)

Best answer:

Answer by Witty Wabbit
“What are the Harmful Consequences of Drug Use?” : http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/pubs/adp-apd/straight_facts-faits_mefaits/harmful-torts-eng.php#harmful covers the BEHAVIOUR.

The next page “What is Canada’s Drug Strategy?” discusses about the PREVENTION too.

Treatment, eh?! http://www.drugabuse.gov/DrugPages/Treatment.html might help.

I think this article: “The evolutionary origins and significance of drug addiction” might help ya too…

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1174878/

Most importantly,”Drugs distribution and use in ancient environments” will give you a clear picture about the ancient substance abuse.

But I betcha, to trace the origin is an impossible stuff … 🙁

Ahhhh that National Center for Biotechnology Information article has everything ya want! 🙂 Happy “papering” 😀

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Johnny Manziel denies report he sought counseling for alcohol, anger …
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Question by Rachel?: Interesting Facts on “changing someones life”?
I didnt really know how to word my question, but i found this on a myspace profile:
[5,388] youths are arrested.
[4,219] teenagers got an std.
[3,610] teens are assaulted.
[80] are raped.
[2,861] teens drop out of school.
[1,377] teenagers become mothers.
[1,106] teenage girls get an abortion.
[1,000] adolescents began drinking alcohol.
[500] adolescents began using drugs.
[420] children are arrested for drug use.
[6] commit suicide…
in one day.
lets make somes life a change

Can you tell me anymore facts like the ones above? thanks.

Best answer:

Answer by ThaTaz
I always doubt the kind of “facts” that you posted since there is no source. I’ve seen “facts” like that that has spread all over the internet, blogs, forums, groups, mail and so on. With no source it might as well be something that someone made up, in many cases it is, all with a good intent of course. Searching the facts you posted with Google I found them on 6 360 pages. I’ve looked through some of them (picking them randomly) and I can’t find anyone that posts a source. The list also changes from list to list sometimes there is more on the list, sometimes it’s children not teenagers and so on. It’s sad really, if the list is real and factual then it loses credibility because it lacks a source.

This site lists different statistics about teenagers and they list the sources too:
http://www.soundvision.com/Info/teens/stat.asp

This page has a list of articles about teens and alcohol and drug abuse:
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/teens/Teens_and_Substance_Abuse.htm

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