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Many Painkiller Abusers Use Doctors to Get Their Pills

Many Painkiller Abusers Use Doctors to Get Their Pills
The treatments include Purdue Pharma LP's Oxycontin and Endo Health Solutions (ENDP) Inc.'s Opana. Federal attempts to limit … Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman died in February from a toxic mix of drugs that included heroin and cocaine. The second study …
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Holder Calls for Reduced Sentences for Low-Level Drug Offenders

Holder calls for reduced sentences for low-level drug offenders
He traveled to several cities, including Philadelphia and Peoria, Ill., to highlight drug treatment programs that serve as alternatives to prison for low-level offenders. The attorney general said his initiative would save the government billions of …
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Is Drug Rehab Effective for a Person With Addiction? and What Are the Services Offered by the Center?

Question by Mill Boon: Is drug rehab effective for a person with addiction? And what are the services offered by the center?
It’s because I want to enter my brother in a rehab center because of his addiction to cocaine. Also, can somebody give me an idea… Continue reading

Good Future Rehab Center-

Good Future Rehab Center- — Good Future Drug Rehab Center in FL and Alcohol Rehab Treatment Programs is provided in a safe, nurturing and drug free environment. Good Future Best Drug Ab…


Opiate abuse may be up, but overdose deaths are flat
Peter Shumlin highlighted the opiate addiction crisis in… Continue reading

Heroin Arrests Hit Record in Brown County

Heroin arrests hit record in Brown County
The county has had one possible heroin overdose death this year, still awaiting laboratory confirmation, five last year and nine the year before, according to the Brown County Medical Examiner's office. Deaths have been declining not because heroin use …
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'Archer' Review: "Smuggler'S Blues"

'Archer' Review: "Smuggler's Blues"
'Archer' season 5 adds a bit more 'Vice' in its latest episode “Smuggler's Blues,” as Archer, Cyril and Ray head to Columbia in search of a buyer for their cocaine, while Malory and Lana worry about their fate from back home. Previous 'Archer …
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How to Pass Drug Test for Cocaine in One Day

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Stroke Risks Increases 700 Percent After Cocaine Use
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14/18 Combining Cocaine and Alcohol: A Physiological Explanation

14/18 Combining cocaine and alcohol: a physiological explanation — From http://www.knowdrugs.net/blog Dr Katharine May is a psychologist who works in addiction. She wrote her Masters on substance misuse. It was called ‘The Myth of the Addict’. She discusses…


Pill addicts' source: Friends
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Robinson: We're Losing This Drug War

Robinson: We're losing this drug war
Our drug policy of prohibition and interdiction makes it difficult and dangerous for people like Hoffman to get high, but not impossible — and makes these tragic overdose deaths more common than they have to be. The obvious problem is that when an …… Continue reading

Doctors Are Top Source of Prescription Drugs for Chronic Abusers

Doctors are top source of prescription drugs for chronic abusers
The study, published Monday by the Journal of the American Medical Assn., echoes a 2012 Times investigation that found drugs prescribed by doctors caused or contributed to nearly half of the prescription overdose deaths in Southern California in recent …… Continue reading