From Marijuana to Heroin: Adolescents at Greater Risk of Addiction
From marijuana to heroin: Adolescents at greater risk of addiction
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Doctors Hear of Horrors of Epidemic of Prescription-Drug Addiction
Prescription drugs were implicated in the deaths of more than 700 state residents in both 2011 and 2012, according to statistics released by Dr. Roger Mitchell, the New Jersey assistant state medical examiner. He contrasted that number with the 75 …
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Early ed next frontier in fight against opioids
While statistics are available for the city, they aren't for the surrounding towns, so workers are going through death certificates to find out how many deaths can be traced to overdoses of heroin, OxyContin or similar drugs. Over the last decade, at …
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