drug abuse
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Obama Vows to Fight Heroin ‘Crisis’
One week after Democratic Sen. Bob Casey vowed to continue a push for ways lawmakers can help, President Barack Obama…
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Study: Needle Exchange Policy Prevented HIV
(USA Today) – Lifting a ban on spending city money on needle exchanges for intravenous drug users prevented 120 new…
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Report: Number of US Heroin Users Rose 300,000 Over a Decade
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of U.S. heroin users has grown by nearly 300,000…
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Flakka, Synthetic Drug Behind Increasingly Bizarre Crimes
CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — One man ran naked through a Florida neighborhood, tried…
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Actor Tackles Rehab, Drug Addiction in New Drama
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Shiek Mahmud-Bey isn’t yet a household name, but…
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CDC: Heroin Deaths Doubled in Much of the Country
MIKE STOBBE, AP Medical Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Deaths from heroin overdose doubled in just two years in much…
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Heroin Users in US: 90% White, Live Outside Urban Areas
The vast majority of heroin users has made a complete shift in demographics, according to Bloomberg. [A research] study, published…
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Friends Common Source of Abused Prescription Meds
LINDSEY TANNER, AP Medical Writer CHICAGO (AP) — Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from…
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DEA Special Agent Educates on Alarming – and Deadly – Trend in Teen Drug Use at “Truth About Synthetics” Forum
____________________________________________________________________________________ CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY NATIONAL AFFAIRS OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D.C. DEA Special Agent Educates on Alarming – and Deadly – Trend…
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Substance Abuse Fuels Incarceration Rates for Black Men
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – A recent study reports that treating substance abusers, especially African Americans,…
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