Should I Feel Bad About Still Being a Stoner?

Question by Jeremy Lin: Should I feel bad about still being a stoner?
I smoked a couple times in high school with my friends but never regularly. As a freshman in college, I got really depressed at my lack of friends and my average grades and ended… Continue reading

Horrors of Drug Addiction on Display at Syosset Forum

Horrors of drug addiction on display at Syosset forum
Changes in grades, mood, weight, sleep patterns, friends. Extreme emotions. Scratching. Missing money, or missing pills from the medicine cabinet. At a forum to educate parents about the dangers of heroin and opioid addiction, Nassau Assistant …
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Drug Abuse Help………………………….?

Question by Shorty S: drug abuse help………………………….?
how do people start substance abuse?

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Answer by Toby
well they try it. find that it helps them feel better, so they continue to use it. soon they use it for everything, they depend on it.

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RAND Study: Marijuana Use Rises While Consumption of Cocaine

RAND Study: Marijuana Use Rises While Consumption Of Cocaine
A 2010 study published in the Harm Reduction Journal reported that cannabis-using adults enrolled in substance abuse treatment programs fared equally or better than nonusers in various outcome categories, including treatment completion. Full text of …
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Report Takes on New Jersey's Heroin, Pill Problem

Report takes on New Jersey's heroin, pill problem
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) – New Jersey should expand prescription monitoring rules and make it easier for people to have drug treatment covered by insurance under recommendations released Tuesday by a state panel aimed at combatting what it called a "skyrocketing" problem of… Continue reading

Man Busted in Hoffman Drug Raid Avoids Jail in Plea Deal

Man busted in Hoffman drug raid avoids jail in plea deal
As part of the deal, the 22-year-old must also attend an outpatient drug rehab program. McLaughlin sentenced the once-shabby hipster, who upgraded his look for court appearances to preppy chic, to time served for an unrelated October 2010 cocaine… Continue reading

Hawaii Biotech Awarded $5.5M Contract to Develop Anti-Botulism Drugs for Military

Hawaii Biotech awarded .5M contract to develop anti-botulism drugs for military
The Department of Defense recently awarded Hawaii Biotech Inc. a $ 5.5 million contract to continue developing drugs to treat a toxin that causes the life-threatening disease botulism, which currently has no known treatment, the Honolulu-based firm said …
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Henderson Psychiatric Care Center to Expand on Parcel It Bought From Church

Henderson psychiatric care center to expand on parcel it bought from church
It also provides detoxification and rehabilitation programs for alcoholics and drug addicts. Acadia, based in Franklin, Tenn., acquired the facility in fall 2011 as part of its $ 76 million purchase of Pioneer Behavioral Health, which had five… Continue reading

Editorial | the Terrible Costs of Drug Addiction – the Courier-Journal

Editorial | The terrible costs of drug addiction – The Courier-Journal

Editorial | The terrible costs of drug addiction
The Courier-Journal
For their struggles with drugs, and with children born addicted to or affected by the drugs their mothers could not stop taking even during pregnancy, are our struggles,… Continue reading

Inside the Barely Legal World of Designer Drugs

Inside The Barely Legal World Of Designer Drugs
You know, they had enough on their plate trying to deal with normal drug abuse. To have Internet-enabled legal drug abuse, it draws up so many philosophical questions and legal and technical questions that they don't really know where to start, to… Continue reading