New Helpline From Drug Rehab Sayreville Gives a Voice for Young Addicts

New Helpline from Drug Rehab Sayreville Gives a Voice for Young Addicts

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The helpline was created to give teens an opportunity to voice their concerns and questions to qualified addiction specialists. Peer pressure often plays a huge role in teenage drug abuse. Some may believe receiving help for substance abuse at a rehab …
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Orchard Park mother joins fight for medical marijuana with her young daughter …

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Wendy Conte spends time with her 8-year-old daughter, Anna, in their Orchard Park home Monday. Conte believes medical marijuana would help her ill daughter. Robert Kirkham/Buffalo News … Others, like Sydney Drowning, fear that legalizing medical …
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Prescription Opioid Abusers Prefer to Get High On Oxycodone, Hydrocodone

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Prevention and treatment approaches should benefit from this because it may help prescribing physicians determine which drug to prescribe and monitor for abuse." Share this story on Facebook, Twitter, and Google: Other social bookmarking and sharing …
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Officers' Trial Underway in Death of 'Harmless' Kelly Thomas

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Barnett and Cicinelli's attorney, Michael Schwartz, said officers requested a Code 3 — meaning officers need help — three times. Schwartz said the evidence will show Thomas had an "enlarged heart" due to years of drug abuse and that he lapsed into …
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Whitfield Pushes for Additional Resources to Help States Combat Prescription Drug Abuse – WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Ed Whitfield (KY-01), recently pushed for the reauthorization of his bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3528, the National All Schedu…