Treatment Director: Drugs Proliferating in Lamorinda
Treatment director: Drugs proliferating in Lamorinda
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The list goes on, as do the serious medical reactions and even deaths; in 2008, 14,800 youths who mixed drugs and alcohol died, Long reports. "If I told you we're going to lose 10 kids every month from drug use, what would you do as a community?
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Fewer young people on heroin
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Heroin also remains the biggest problem for drug addicts, with four in five of the 197,110 adults in treatment in England being helped for heroin dependency or for heroin and crack. A total of 96,343 were being treated for heroin dependency while a …
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Zarate: Local prescription: Sustained anti-drug efforts a must
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The National Survey on Drug Use and Health released welcome news this week regarding drug abuse: Efforts to stem the tide of prescription drug misuse are beginning to pay off. With a 14 percent decrease among young adults in the nonmedical use of Rx …
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Treatment Director: Drugs Proliferating In Lamorinda
Kids in Lamorinda don't do drugs. If you read that sentence and laugh or weep in disbelief, you are more informed than most parents with children living in these affluent East Bay communities, according to Dr. S. Alex Stalcup, medical director of the New Leaf Treatment Center in Lafayette. … Read News