Drug Abuse: Focus: Drug Addiction Seeking Answers to Tragic Use of Painkillers Recent … – Buffalo News

Focus: Drug Addiction Seeking answers to tragic use of painkillers Recent … – Buffalo News
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Focus: Drug Addiction Seeking answers to tragic use of painkillers Recent
Buffalo News
To Placek and other advocates, such stories illustrate why they see a need for the state to strengthen services to treat all addictions, particularly in light of new legislation meant to crack down on prescription drug abuse. At meetings Aug. 7 at the
Prescription drug abuse among youth prompts actionRedwood Times
Prescription drug addiction at epidemic proportionsInyo Register
Prescription Drugs Kill More in NM Than HeroinABQ Journal (subscription)

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Price, purity and availability fuel drug use in NM – Farmington Daily Times
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Price, purity and availability fuel drug use in NM
Farmington Daily Times
The Albuquerque Journal reports (http://bit.ly/RDPlXJ ) that teen drug use in New Mexico — heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine — is double and triple the national average, depending on the drug. The Department of Health estimates there are 25000
Deadly AddictionABQ Journal (subscription)

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Making a dent in synthetic drug use – Auburn Citizen
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Making a dent in synthetic drug use
Auburn Citizen
Obits don't normally say "death attributed to synthetic drug use." Parents don't announce their treasured little boy is lying in a nursing home, now a vegetable. Most longtime drug users won't touch synthetics. This raises the question of why anyone

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FEATURE-Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal’s drug programme – Reuters
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FEATURE-Once a model, crisis imperils Portugal's drug programme
Reuters
But experts warn that budget cuts and the threat of more cuts to come – combined with an increase in hard drug abuse – risk turning it into a shadow of its former self. "We have a certain responsibility to maintain the essential despite the recession

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