Drug Abuse: Heroin Epidemic Requires Community Action

Heroin epidemic requires community action
Filed under: Drug Abuse

Significant shifts in drug-abuse patterns are currently under way in South Florida and across the nation. These changes require more opportunities for addiction recovery and awareness about them particularly for families and friends of an addicted loved one. As a Miami Herald story on May 13 noted, those changes include new heroin epidemics fueled by prescription-drug addiction in South Florida.
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'Glee' will address drug abuse in Cory Monteith exit episode
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"Glee" star Cory Monteith's castmates will film PSAs about drug abuse to air during a tribute to the late actor, Kevin Reilly, Fox's chairman of entertainment, said on Thursday.
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U.S. TV series 'Glee' to address drug abuse, death of Cory Monteith
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Television musical series "Glee" will address the death of star Cory Monteith in the upcoming season, writing his character out of the show and touching on Monteith's real-life drug use, U.S. TV network Fox said on Thursday. Monteith, who played high school jock-turned-show-choir-member Finn Hudson, died last month at age 31 in Vancouver from an accidental overdose of …
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