Editorial: State Must Step Up to Help Drug Addicts Get Proper Treatment
Editorial: State must step up to help drug addicts get proper treatment
Insurance companies, including MassHealth, make it difficult for addicts to get the help they need, according to many who have studied addiction and attempted to help addicts. That must change immediately. The Senate Special Committee on Section 35 and …
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Drug addicts lack help – Rural Women
The organisation representing rural women says it concerned about a… Continue reading
Mandatory Drug Testing for Law Enforcers Is Now Law
Mandatory drug testing for law enforcers is now law
Gov. Eloy S. Inos signed into law a nine-month-old bill requiring annual mandatory drug tests for law enforcement officers, recognizing “several incidents of illegal drug abuse involving law enforcement as well as the fact that many of these employees carry firearms and hold safety-sensitive functions.”
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Budget cash tackles Vic drug/alcohol abuse
The Victorian government has announced it will spend… Continue reading
Powdered Alcohol Raises Abuse Concerns; Product Awaiting Federal Label Approval
Powdered alcohol raises abuse concerns; product awaiting federal label approval
Palcohol, a powdered alcohol in the news recently for having its label approved — then rescinded — by federal regulators, could still hit the market this fall, according to the company producing it. Even so, that doesn't necessarily mean it would be …
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New heroin overdose drug OK'd
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration this month approved a… Continue reading
What Is the Difference Between Drug Abuse and Drug Addiction?
Question by Chronic: What is the difference between drug abuse and drug addiction?
I am witing something freelance and just wondering if anyone can give me an addequite difference between drug abuse and drug addiction.
The definition of an addict is: 1. To cause to become physiologically or psychologically dependent on a habit-forming substance
2. To occupy (oneself) with or involve (oneself) in something habitually or compulsively
Definition of drug abuse: he use of illegal… Continue reading
I Think I’ve Got an Alcohol Addiction?
Question by ? ? s ? ? z ? Sinister meow-meow: I think I’ve got an alcohol addiction?
It’s just recently started happening.
I’m always drinking! I get back from school, I down a bottle of wine.
I wake up, I drink more wine.
I run out of wine, I go and blow money on MORE wine. I’ve been through the cellar and taken what I wanted.
I don’t know what’s happening… Continue reading