Richard Roper: Legalize Pot and Gamble With Our Kids' Futures
Richard Roper: Legalize pot and gamble with our kids' futures
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Addressing drug-abuse problems is best handled not by arresting our way out of the problem, but by relying on a comprehensive approach consisting of prevention, enforcement and treatment programs. Under this model, overall drug use dropped …
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Dianne Vogt raises money, gives hugs to help families deal with addiction …
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Dianne Vogt raises money, gives hugs to help families deal with addiction: Community Heroes (video). Tom Feran, The Plain Dealer By Tom Feran … LAKEWOOD, Ohio — When an adolescent falls into drug addiction, a family may need more than love and …
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Drop-off boxes get drugs out of the house
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Prescription drug abuse has been classified as an epidemic by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “Nationwide, approximately 60 percent of teens say that access to prescription drugs is easy via their home medicine cabinets or that of a …
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New Jersey Governor Who Resigned After A Sex Scandal Is Winning Praise For …
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That search led him to the Hudson County jail, where he works with Integrity House, a substance abuse treatment provider based in Newark, to help female inmates get back on their feet and stay upright. A former assistant prosecutor and onetime …
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Effects of Bathsalts Pt.2 – Bath Salt Addiction Addiction treatment centers across the nation are starting to see patients turning up with familiar addictive behaviors related to a new legal drug on the market that is being sold as bath salts. The bath salts are sold by names like Charge, White Knight and Sky Vanilla and all have labels stating they are not intended for human consumption. But it appears they are actually produced for exactly that, human consumption, with the “bath salts” description clearly being a sham and a clever, but insidious way to get around substance abuse laws. The problem is that the laws do not cover many of the new substances showing up in mini-marts and gas stations around the country. Last year, many states scrambled to address a lack of laws on synthetic marijuana that people were smoking to get high. Lawmakers in several states moved quickly to ban the fake pot and now there are even more new variations of harder drugs showing up. The bath salts are sold in packets about the size of a tea bag, which is clearly not enough “salt” for a real “bath” but evidently contains plenty of the potent, but unrestricted drug mephedrone, which is a stimulant and produces a high similar to cocaine or methamphetamine. Because the packets come with the disclaimer, “not for human consumption” they are not subject to regulation even though they can contain a potpourri of dangerous chemicals. Mephedrone is a derivative substance similar to amphetamines and the side effects are about …
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