9 on Your Side Investigates: Drug Abuse Across the East

9 On Your Side Investigates: Drug abuse across the East
Cities across our state are focused this week on fighting prescription drug abuse with Operation Medicine Drop. It’s a growing problem in North Carolina experts say can quickly escalate into abuse of more dangerous street drugs and sometimes lead to fatal overdoses. Now 9 On Your Side is finding out how law enforcement agencies across the East are fighting the epidemic. In his 18 years working …
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Mindfulness therapy helps prevent drug and alcohol relapse
By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A treatment program incorporating mindfulness meditation is better over the long term than traditional approaches at preventing relapses of drug and alcohol abuse, according to a new study. One year after treatment for substance abuse, far fewer participants who got relapse-prevention training including mindfulness techniques had used drugs or …
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Mindfulness meditation may reduce drug user relapse
In the study, 286 people who had been treated for substance abuse were assigned to receive one of three therapies after their initial treatment: a program that involved only group discussions, a "relapse- prevention" therapy that involved learning to …
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Stop drug use
I thank God for our dedicated police officers and Coast Guard members who work to stop drugs from coming into our country. Health care providers should spend their efforts on trying to stop people from doing drugs, which do far more damage to the body …
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