Pills Prove a Prescription for Addiction

Published November 24, 2012

Pills prove a prescription for addiction

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW recently found 500 Australians aged 15 to 54 died of an opiate overdose in 2008, up from 360 in 2007. Only one-third involved heroin. Preliminary figures suggest there …
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Legalization of marijuana

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Alcohol is legal and proven to be more addictive than marijuana. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports numerous alcohol-related deaths annually. Another reason marijuana is illegal is because the government categorizes it in …
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Sober Reflection

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Drug addiction is one of society's most difficult dilemmas. As A. Thomas McClellan, chief executive of the nonprofit Treatment Research Institute, told The New York Times in 2008, "The system doesn't work well for what for many people is a chronic …
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