New Anti-Marijuana Campaign in Metro Detroit Hopes to Head Off Teen Drug Use

Published May 2, 2013

New anti-marijuana campaign in Metro Detroit hopes to head off teen drug use

Filed under: effects of drug addiction

Anti-drug advocates, law enforcers, educators and politicians spoke about the high number of students who admit to having used marijuana — 42.3 percent of seniors, according to a 2011 Centers for Disease Control study — and the impact of changing …
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Quitting Cocaine Without Fanfare

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I was a pretty clean-living kid. I never questioned all that baloney about drugs being poison and instantly addictive. And because … Now, one of the side-effects of prolonged cocaine use is that it softens your teeth. It dries your mouth, increasing …
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Russia's Flesh Eating Heroin And Other Seriously Bad Drugs

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Users cut the drug crudely with household items and iodine, the final product so dirty, injection results in a rapid onset of gangrene. As usage has become more widespread, the full destructive effects on the body have been documented, with addicts …
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Legalizing marijuana: Side effects mount with states' drug experimentation

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Legalizing Marijuana. (Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013, in Seattle. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)). The after-effects of November's referendums legalizing the private use of marijuana continue to generate legal questions in Colorado and Washington court houses.
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