There are several aspects to addressing the heroin addiction problem in America. States throughout the country have to balance education, prevention, treatment and crime related to heroin in order to decrease the number of people who are addicted or who will become addicted. The problem has become so pervasive, that more people are willing to […]
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Recently, there has been some indication that general prescription painkiller abuse is starting to decline. Many addiction experts attribute this to increased efforts to educate and prevent painkiller abuse throughout the country, as well as tighter restrictions on drug availability and distribution. However, a recent study conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of
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“Smoking weed and drinking alcohol will lead you to asking the drug dealer, what else do you have to make me feel better?,” a recovering heroin addict tells teens.
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“I kept hoping she would just stop – Ididn’t understand addiction,” says Tina Holley.
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An addiction is an all-consuming disease – one that can drive a person to use and manipulate the people they love without a thought.
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Sometime near the end of July 2011, a phone rang, innocently enough. Somewhere during the day, the family of Amy Winehouse was informed that Amy was not ok. And the worst that could possibly happen to an innocent family, unfortunately did.