Surgery Causes NFL Player’s Drug Addiction
Surgery Causes NFL Player’s Drug Addiction – “On Good Friday in April 2009, Greg Gaines’ daughters thought their father was about to die. Their father — a Nashville high school football legend, a standout player at the University of Tennessee and a seven-year NFL veteran — lay unconscious on a bedroom floor, making guttural noises as foamy liquid spewed from his mouth. His breath was faint. His eyes appeared to be shaking in their sockets. They thought he had finally lost his battle against prescription drug abuse, a legacy of his football career.” John Glennon, Tennessean Newspaper September 5,2010. Listen to Greg tell how he overcame this demon of drug addiction.
Film Takes Straightforward Approach To Drug Abuse At Naperville School
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NAPERVILLE, Ill. (CBS) — A documentary from a Naperville teen takes a blunt look at drug use in her high school. As WBBM Newsradio's Nancy Harty reports, after four overdose deaths in one year at Neuqua Valley High School, senior Kelly McCutcheon …
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Number of painkiller-addicted newborns triples in 10 years
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It's published today in The Journal of the American Medical Association. That's about 13539 infants a year, or one drug-addicted baby born every hour, says the study's lead author, Stephen Patrick, a fellow in neonatal-perinatal medicine at the …
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US Senate panel launches investigation of painkillers, drug companies
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The newspaper reported that the nonprofits pushed for expanded use of the drugs while taking in millions of dollars from the companies that made them. In April 2011, a Journal Sentinel/MedPage Today story found that the UW Pain group had been a …
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Sant Samaj to launch campaign against drug addiction in Punjab http://t.co/GB59kcOv – by Aj_Newspaper (Aj Newspaper)