Prescription Drug Abuse Concerns School Police

Prescription Drug Abuse Concerns School Police

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LAS VEGAS — Clark County schools are working to fight the growing national problem of prescription drug abuse. School police say they've seen kids suffering bad reactions from taking drugs they were never prescribed. Traditionally, law enforcement …
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Letters: drug abuse, Mount Soledad, Prince Harry

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I feel the letter from Pam Slater-Price and Bonnie Dumanis misses the point regarding drug abuse (“Stepping up the fight against prescription drug abuse,” Opinion, Aug. 24). We have thrown away a lot of money on the war on drugs. We have thrown away a …
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Teen pot use linked to later declines in IQ

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"I think this is the cleanest study I've ever read" that looks for long-term harm from marijuana use, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which helped fund the research. Ken Winters, a psychiatry professor at the …
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Teens share their drug abuse stories –

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