Girl in Bad Way After Taking Ice
Girl in bad way after taking ice
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Mr Cronin said the girl had been “in a bad way” after taking the drug. She spent 10 days as an inpatient at the Nolan House psychiatric unit at Albury Base Hospital being treated for psychosis after her sister found her. She is now under the care of …
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Report: Arizona Has Nation'S Sixth-Highest Prescription Drug Abuse Rate
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Shumaker cited several factors for the relatively high rate of abuse in the state, including overprescribing by doctors, the sale of unused medication and a lack of education about the pitfalls of prescription-drug addiction. “A lot of … If the new …
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Expect More Rx to OTC Switches: Kalorama Information Reports
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Historically, patients depended only on health-care professionals to diagnose a condition and prescribe a prescription drug for treatment, but now patients have become more involved in health-care issues and now have taken some medical treatment into …
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Radical Measures against Brazil’s “Crackland” – Authorities in Brazil prepare to get tough on crack cocaine addicts. Rio de Janeiro city officials are considering passing a law which would make the compulsory treatment of crack cocaine users legal as the nation’s infamous “cracklands” grow. In Rio de Janeiro, crack users were driven out to outlying favelas after a 2008 initiative saw police take over the city’s main shantytowns, or favelas. Now, in an effort to “clean-up” the city ahead of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, officials are pushing for the compulsory treatment of crack-cocaine addicts living in the streets. Health officials, assisted by armed police, would try to convince crack-cocaine users into getting treatment – or take them away forcibly if they resist. The measure is hugely polarizing. Some don’t believe in the one size fits all solution. [Leonardo Pecoraro Costa, President of Drug Policy Council of Rio de Janeiro]: “We don’t support the treatment, either compulsory or involuntary, as a model to be applied to all drug addicts. In specific cases, properly followed by health professionals, that can be an option, but it has to be part of a bigger plan.” An addict, who declined to give his name, also disagreed. [Anonymous, Cocaine Addict]: “I decide if want to go or not (to get treatment). I have gone many times.” But according to Silvia Tedesco, a Psychologist Professor at the Federal Fluminense University, in Rio de Janeiro, the country’s politicians are trying to find a short-term solution for …