PW Talks With Pattie Mallette: Justin Bieber's Mother Tells Her Story of …
PW Talks with Pattie Mallette: Justin Bieber's Mother Tells Her Story of …
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
Before she inadvertently launched her son's career on YouTube in 2008, Pattie Mallette survived suicide attempts, drug addiction, and giving birth to megastar Justin Bieber when she was just 18. The 37-year-old single mother's Twitter bio reminds her 1 …
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Heroin, opiates behind more than half of fatal overdoses
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
That is the greatest number of heroin fatalities since the drug burst onto the scene in 2008, according to Rock County Coroner's Office data. Another … "Some accountability must be achieved early on to strip away some potential future victims of drug …
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SHERROD BROWN Helping Ohio communities stop prescription drug abuse
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
As the national death toll from prescription drug overdoses doubled, the rate of overdoses tripled in Ohio. Ohio's death rate due to unintentional drug poisoning increased more than 350 percent from 1999 to 2008. Oxycodone and other opioids caused more …
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East Bridgewater to hold first drug awareness vigil as problem grows in town
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
Eight people have overdosed on drugs in East Bridgewater so far this year – four times more overdoses than the two reported in 2008, police said. And five people have died in East Bridgewater after overdosing on drugs in the past five years. On …
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