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Patients caution lawmakers about role of pain medications
By Colleen Quinn State House News Service BOSTON — People coping with chronic pain cautioned lawmakers, looking for solutions to opiate-addiction problems, not to make pain medications so difficult to obtain that those who truly need them
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Are doctors to blame for opiate addiction epidemic? CDC reports doctors are a leading source of opioids for high-risk …
LOS ANGELES, April 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — One of the most common misconceptions about men and women who abuse prescription opioid drugs is that they get those drugs from friends or relatives. Now, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed alarming new evidence that those at highest risk of opioid overdose are just as likely to obtain opiate drugs from …
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Sterling Heights MI Alcohol Drug Rehab Announces Updated Substance Abuse …
The drug rehabilitation process within the center itself can run around 30 days. The first step involves detoxification, where getting rid of marijuana, cocaine, barbiturates, prescription drugs, and other substances are cleansed from an individual's …
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America's Heroin Epidemic: Where to Find Help
'Downhill Spiral': America's Heroin Epidemic. Nightly News. The US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration provides a toll-free and confidential hotline 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, providing assistance in English and Spanish for …
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Hometown News Calendar for Week of Apr 27, 2014
If someone in your life is struggling with addiction or abuse of chemicals you may gain a better understanding of the addiction process; how it develops, progresses, and what those around the impacted individual can do to assist in dealing with this …
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The Heroin Highway on Long Island
Last year I wrote about Long Island's continuing battle with prescription drug abuse and the “I-STOP” law we passed to create a statewide, real-time prescription tracking database. The good news is these efforts worked. There's been a dramatic decrease …
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Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … – Insurance News Net (press release)

Deadly addiction: Heroin use, a tragic wrong turn for prescription drug … Insurance News Net (press release) A 20-bed detox facility on Coit Street in New London , run by Southeastern Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc. , is in the midst of a $ 900,000 renovation in part to accommodate medical staff for patients suffering the painful effects of … and more »

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New York lawmakers take aim at heroin resurgence – SunHerald.com

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Read more... New York lawmakers take aim at heroin resurgence SunHerald.com Four months later, in March 2013 — after detox, inpatient treatment, meetings and stints of sobriety — Laree, who graduated high school at 16, was found dead in her bed of an overdose five days shy of her 19th birthday. A study by the Substance Abuse … and more »

Question by : is it safe to take 1mg xanax i never took it before i know alot of people od off of it idk if i should take it?
it the xanax bars

Best answer:

Answer by Pedro
dont be a fool.

just because your friends are doing something stupid, doesnt mean you have to.

I had to learn that the hard way. Dont let yourself get into trouble with drugs just because it’s popular “now”.

I have been in jail because of xanax.

I have seen people lose their jobs and house because of xanax

I know people have had used harder barbituates because of xanax as a pill poppers gateway drug, and wound up dead.

If you want to take it, no one can really stop you but you, the police, or the grim reaper. So it’s up to you? Who do you want to listen to?    Read more...

'Your Voice, Your Vote:' Prescription drug abuse
And what's even scarier is prescription painkiller abuse can lead to heroin addiction. Former Oregon U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton, who is now CEO of Lines of Life, a nonprofit agency that works to prevent substance abuse and suicide; Dr. Sharon Meieran …
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BC-US–Heroin Across America,ADVISORY, US
Then one night in June 2010, a strung-out Marchese went to the emergency room, frantically seeking help. The doctors shook their heads: Heroin withdrawal is not life-threatening, they said, and we can't admit you. Marchese and his sister stayed up all …
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