Babies born addicted to drugs: The startling statistics
"I can talk addiction and you know talk recovery, but I live recovery everyday of my life," said Jacobs. Both workers said the instant gratification of getting high does not last long, but has a long lasting-impact. For more information on the Knott …
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Global riot epidemic due to demise of cheap fossil fuels
The hope was that ongoing economic recovery would return to pre-crash levels of growth, alleviating the grievances fueling the fires of civil unrest, stoked by years of recession. But this hasn't happened. And it won't. Instead the post-2008 … The …
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EDITORIAL: Taking on heroin abuse
Although the 46-year-old had battled addiction as a young man, he supposedly had been clean for decades and was said to be a role model of sorts for others on the road to recovery. … The alarming statistics have officials scrambling for ways to …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Ruled Accidental
The Capote star, who had been clean for two decades recently completed a stint in rehab for his addiction after a relapse. Philip Seymour Hoffman's funeral … Oscar Race in History? Statistics show 12 Years a Slave unlikely to win many awards on the …
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Drug help group suggests looking for signs of heroin use
With the recent death of Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman of an apparent overdose, many people are talking about drug abuse. DrugFreeAZ.org CEO Leslie Bloom says parents need to watch their children for signs of heroin abuse. "Typically, heroin is injected …
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Heroin abuse at 'epidemic' level in South Florida –drug report
MIAMI (Reuters) – A high-profile law enforcement crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse in Florida has addicts turning increasingly to heroin, resulting in the highest number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations in recent years, a report on drug …
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Long a nexus of Rx drug abuse, Staten Island now faces heroin's scourge
Except as risky as painkillers are to abuse, heroin's an even trickier roll of the dice. "They don't know what they're doing," says Fusco, who runs the Dynamite Youth Center in Brooklyn and its residential treatment center in update Fallsburg New York …
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Why Is Heroin Abuse Rising While Other Drug Abuse Is Falling?
Peter Shumlin, Democratic governor of Vermont, moved heroin addiction to the front burner of national news by devoting his entire State of the State address last week to his state's dramatic increase in heroin abuse. Shumlin described the situation as …
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Mass. Senate to study problem of drug addiction
BOSTON (AP) — The Massachusetts Senate is creating a special committee to study the problem of drug addiction. The committee will look at the state law that allows courts to commit an individual whose alcohol or drug addiction puts themselves or …
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In Annual Speech, Vermont Governor Shifts Focus to Drug Abuse
Peter Shumlin, a Democrat, used his State of the State Message on Wednesday in Montpelier to encourage public debate on the growing problem of drug abuse and addiction in his state. Caleb Kenna for The New York Times. MONTPELIER, Vt. — In a sign …
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