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• Substance Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 155
  Substance Exposed Infants: State Responses to the Problem (PDF; 1.5 MB) Source: National Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare This study assessed State policy from the broadest perspective: prevention, intervention, identification, and treatment of prenatal substance exposure, including immediate and ...
  17 hours ago

• The Mail Order Drug to Get High

  
  FOX News Health Blog — Authority: 423
  Recently, I treated a patient struggling with depression and substance abuse who had found a legal way to get high.  He had ordered Kratom capsules on the Internet.  Lots of his friends have ordered up supplies, too. I hadn’t heard of Kratom, and you probably haven’t, either, but I think you will.   It mimics ...
  2 days ago

• UK: A civilised society: Mental health provision for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 155
  A civilised society: Mental health provision for refugees and asylum-seekers in England and Wales Source: Mind, UK From Key findings and recommendations: Restrictive policies on healthcare, education, accommodation, welfare support and employment are functioning to socially exclude and marginalise refugees and ...
  2 days ago

• Taylor Swift Surprises Children In Need

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 579
  Written by Tim Saunders Taylor Swift was a surprise guest at this year’s BBC Children in Need extravaganza in London on Friday night – an event that raised a massive £20,309,747 for charity. Hosted by Terry Wogan , Tess Daly and Alesha Dixon, the seven hour show featured actors from some of ...
  3 days ago

• Shocking Discoveries About Drug and Alcohol Abuse in High School

  
  Health till 100 — Authority: 151
  When I was a sophomore in high school, I enrolled into a drug abuse class. At that time period, I did not comprehend that alcohol abuse in point of fact was a sub category of drug abuse. While taking this class and learning more about drug and alcohol abuse and above all about alcohol side [...]
  3 days ago

• Ending Mandatory Minimums for Pushers in School Zones Sends the Wrong Message

  
  New Jersey Senate Republicans — Authority: 126
  Senator Gerald Cardinale, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announced today that every Republican on the committee would oppose any effort to weaken the drug-free school zones law. “It is clear that children need more rigorous protection against the predators that turn school yards into open ...
  3 days ago

• HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces Senate Confirmation of Pamela H...

  
  Health Fitness & Beauty - health-fitness.marc8.com — Authority: 161
  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced today that the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Pamela Hyde as Administrator for the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) within HHS.
  4 days ago

• Here’s why some people can’t quit cocaine (Re-issue)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 22 (ANI): A new study from University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) sheds light on why some people fall back into drugs despite undergoing a treatment.It shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called ’scale of craving’, an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse ...
  5 days ago

• Whats Made Milngavie Famous (Has Made A Loser Out Of Me)

  
  It Is What It Is — Authority: 129
  Alcohol and Scotland . Irvine Welsh has got it right . Ill quote him in (as far as I can tell) full: "Scotland has a growing problem with alcohol abuse. More people, younger people and more women than ever before are at risk from being encouraged to over-consume this drug. This has an incalculable impact on ...
  5 days ago

• Woman Tells 911 on Drunk Driver — Herself!

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  This woman on a video featured on ABC News deserves both a commendation and a citation. A 911 dispatcher in Wisconsin received a really interesting call from a woman reporting a drunk driver. There are signs on freeways urging people to call 911 to report drunk drivers that may be sharing the road with them in ...
  6 days ago

• Smoke DZA – The Making Of “Substance Abuse” video

  
  MVRemix Urban — Authority: 156
  Smoke DZA – The Making Of “Substance Abuse” video Smoke DZA breaks down what inspired him to make Substance Abuse . Substance Abuse available Dec. 1st.
  6 days ago

• Thugs Sell Motorcycles

  
  Northwest Harley Blog — Authority: 122
  Ludacris “ When you dine with the devil, bring a long spoon. ” — Machiavelli Having a ‘thug’ like Ludacris anywhere near your marketing campaign may not be a good thing.  Yet, Harley-Davidson has decided having a pitchman who glamorizes a life of guns, violence, drugs and is disrespectful of women is ...
  1 week ago

• Great American Smokeout: Smokers Take a Break

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  The efforts of the American Cancer Society to get smokers to quit continue, and one of the ways through which they attempt to do this is by organizing an annual Great American Smokeout. Basically, willing participants take a break from puffing cigarettes on this particular day of the year; this year marks the 34th ...
  1 week ago

• Pre-order new releases by Opposite Exhale, ESA, and EO3

  
  Tympanik Audio — Authority: 119
  Pre-ordering has begun for our final 2009 releases: ESA offers up a stunning remix collection titled ‘ The Immaculate Manipulation ‘; Netherland new-comer Opposite Exhale presents his epic debut album ‘ Nothing Lasts ‘, and finally Tympanik Audio presents its newest 2-CD compilation ‘ Emerging ...
  1 week ago

• Here’s why some people can’t quit cocaine

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov 20 (ANI): A new study from University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) sheds light on why some people fall back into drugs despite undergoing a treatment.It shows that, in the case of cocaine, a high score on the so-called ’scale of craving’, an antisocial personality type and previous heroin abuse ...
  1 week ago

• Members of Aerosmith Think Steven Tyler May Have a Substance Abuse Problem

  
  Powerline A.D. — Authority: 134
  The rest of Aerosmith thinks their singer may have substance abuse problem going on . And they should know. There was a day when they were about as hardcore as they come. Drummer Joey Kramer speaks: “Steven, he isolates more and more all the time — that’s what gives it away to me that there’s something ...
  1 week ago

• Opioid Use Among Those with Depression

  
  Psych Central News — Authority: 554
  Experts are concerned with a finding that suggests chronic pain patients with a history of depression are much more likely to receive prescriptions of opioid medications. Opioid medication include drugs such as Vicodin, OxyContin, Percodan, and Percocet. Researchers discovered chronic pain patients with a history ...
  1 week ago

• Harder to Detect Shake and Bake Meth a Serious Problem

  
  Testing It Up Drug & Health Testing News Test Country Blog — Authority: 144
  The traditional stove style of cooking meth is gone and now it’s been replaced by a variety that is far easier to make and harder to detect than the old method. A self-contained bottle (generally an empty 2 liter soda bottle) is filled with the ingredients and then shaken not allowing the ingredients to settle out. ...
  1 week ago

• Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality

  
  Docuticker — Authority: 155
  Breaking the News or Fueling the Epidemic? Temporal Association between News Media Report Volume and Opioid-Related Mortality Source: PLoS ONE Historical studies of news media have suggested an association between reporting and increased drug abuse. Period effects for substance use have been documented for ...
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• DRUG REHAB IN NORTH CAROLINA

  
  Narcononofga's Weblog — Authority: 130
  The Director of Narconon of Georgia has been warning about the ease with which drug paraphernalia items are purchased at convenience stores for a couple of years after she easily bought several items herself .  She later noted in a local publication: “Simple items like coke cans, spoons, light bulbs and ...
  1 week ago

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