Drug Abuse: Substance Abuse Expert: Increased Marijuana Use Will Lead to More Crowded … – MLive.com

Substance abuse expert: Increased marijuana use will lead to more crowded … – MLive.com
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Substance abuse expert: Increased marijuana use will lead to more crowded … MLive.com Mark Thomson is the former director of a local addiction treatment program for adolescents and their families and a member of the Kent County Prevention Coalition, a local substance abuse prevention organization focused on reducing adolescent use of … and more »

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State to test prescription drug abuse tracking system – Charleston Gazette
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State to test prescription drug abuse tracking system Charleston Gazette CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Within weeks, West Virginia plans to start testing a computerized system designed to crack down on prescription drug abuse across the state. The database of 30 million records will help law enforcement identify people who obtain …

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Heroin Hints

For medical processionals only. This Procedurette discusses some of the ways IV drug users conceal track marks, as well as ways to detect them with a few simple tricks. It also gives an actual depiction of “quality” track marks (much more subtle than the ones you see in textbooks and on TV), and also discusses the pros and cons of confronting the patient about IV drug use.