A Daughter’s Struggle: How Drug Abuse Hurts Families and Relationships
A Daughter’s Struggle: how drug abuse hurts families and relationships – Inspired by a letter from a daughter to her mother, this video shows how abuse of prescription drugs – a common problem – can affect relationships and families.
Carol Costa: Facing Down the Opioid Abuse Monster
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According to a study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse: “Prescription medications are increasingly being abused or used for nonmedical purposes. … It steals life, career, passion, family ties, health, and stability from its victims. … and …
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Heroin epidemic: Do stepped up prevention and prosecution efforts send a …
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Assistant County Prosecutor Mahmoud Awadallah said in a press release that the message sent by the convictions earlier this month should be clear: "If you help someone obtain drugs, or help someone sell drugs, or do the actual selling yourself, you …
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Needling for Change
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These are the communities SIFs were designed to help. Despite the clear need for some kind of intervention to check drug overdose rates, SIF advocates in the U.S. are fighting an uphill battle. For years, drug addiction has inhabited an uneasy middle …
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