Dangerous Path From Pain Pills Use to Heroin Addiction
Dangerous path from pain pills use to heroin addiction
The drug companies that developed opiate-base painkillers in the late 1980s and early 1990s, then marketed them as non-addictive wonder drugs, bear a lion's share of the blame for the current heroin epidemic, according to Evans. “We were lied to …
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Nigella Lawson tells court: 'I would never make my children orphans through …
Nigella Lawson has told a court she would never risk making her children "orphans" by becoming addicted to cocaine or other drugs. She also denied … Miss Lawson told a jury her ex-husband Charles Saatchi knew she had taken cocaine with her first …
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Students face deadly effects of prescription drug addictions
“At first, all I could think about was scoring dope and getting high.” Alex is not alone. The National Institute of Drug abuse estimates that in the U.S., 9 million people suffer from prescription drug addiction, while 200,000 people suffer from heroin …
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