Expert Advice on Dealing With Prescription Drug Abuse in Teens
Expert advice on dealing with prescription drug abuse in teens
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During October and November, the Healthy Kids blog will look at this issue through the stories of former teen prescription-drug users now in recovery, their parents and local addiction-recovery experts working to treat addicted teens and help parents …
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Task force battles teen drug use
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Members of the Nixa High School Choir entertained guests at the 2012 Nixa State of the Community Dinner. Speakers discussed local efforts to curb drug abuse amongst teenagers, among other topics. / Rance Burger/News-Leader …
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''Teen Mom 2' star Jenelle Evans on her drug addiction
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Nov. 2 'Teen Mom 2' star Jenelle Evans gave an exclusive interview to Wet Paint about her struggle with drug addiction. As fans already know, Jenelle went to rehab for her pot addiction at the end of last season, however, it was an unsuccessful attempt …
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Teen Prescription Drug Abuse On the Rise – Clip thanks to www.medstore-online.com Jason was a nationally ranked tennis player, a good student, well-groomed. His parents had no idea he was going to school and to practice walking right past their faces stoned on prescription drugs. “Modafinil, Percocets, Oxycontin, Xanax, Vicodin, Ritalin, Adderall,” he said, reeling off a list of just some of the drugs he tried since he began abusing drugs at age 13. Jay, now 17, said he had “black eyes” and “lost a lot of weight” and probably hadn’t showered in a month when he checked into The Right Step, a small drug and alcohol treatment clinic in Houston. At first, he didn’t want to be there. He is not alone. According to psychiatrist Donald Hauser, The Right Step’s medical director, pharmaceutical abuse is rampant among his young patients. “By far, the most common trend I think we’re seeing are sedative hypnotics, particularly Xanax ‘bars’ is what they call ’em and the opiates, the hydrocodone derivatives, the Vicodins, the Loracets,” Hauser said. “Almost every adolescent that comes in this program has used some of them.” National data support Hauser’s observations. Last year’s results of the Monitoring the Future study, an annual collaboration by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, found a 26 percent rise in teenage abuse of Oxycontin — a powerful opiate — since 2002. Overall, the number of teens abusing prescription drugs has tripled since 1992. There’s no shortage of ways that teens obtain …
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