Fewer Young Adults Are Abusing Prescription Drugs

Fewer Young Adults are Abusing Prescription Drugs

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It's unclear what accounts for this new decline among young adults, but Peter J. Delany, director of SAMHSA's Center for Substance Abuse Treatment, told TakePart he has some theories. For several years, there has been a dip in illicit prescription drug …
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Prescription drug abuse down, but marijuana rising

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Delany is director of the group that organizes the survey, the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment. On the one hand, Delany says the percentage of people misusing prescription drugs such as oxycontin and vicodin has fallen to its lowest point in ten …
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Right here in our backyard: Heroin use spreading to communities not touched …

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Opiate dependence "is very, very difficult to break," said Jon Morgenstern, director of Treatment Research at the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University and director of addiction treatment at Columbia Medical Center in …
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