Wiregrass Drug Task Force Seeing Increase in Prescription Drugs

Wiregrass Drug Task Force Seeing Increase in Prescription Drugs

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“A lot of people do believe it is safer than crack or marijuana or any other drugs they come into contact with but what I can say is it's still an addictive drug. It's still one of the main reasons that we have problems in our families and our …
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Peace with Family Vital for Youngsters' Recovery from Drug Addiction

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There could be family issues, depression and addiction adopted through friends. However, it was revealed that the group of adolescents, who got into the problem due to their family issues, was maximum benefited in drug recovery camp when their equation …
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It takes 730 prescription drug addicted babies to get political attention

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“You need to say: 'Stop the madness. This is too much.' ” This newspaper cites examples of newborn babies sucking on licorice-flavored morphine to ease tremors, due to drug withdrawals. Apparently, rampant abuse of prescription painkillers is the cause.
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The socioeconomic cost of drug abuse

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The cost of human lives lost due to drug abuse is tremendous. Committing this crime causes destruction to families and loss of security and stability among communities and the impact of social and ethical loss is detrimental, experts in the fight …
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Drugs & Addiction : Physiological Causes of Drug Addiction – Drug addiction affects every physiological aspect of the body, as every organ experiences the toxicity associated with high consumption of the drug. Understand the physiological changes that take place simultaneous to drug addiction with information from a licensed mental health counselor in this free video on drug abuse.