Intellectualization of Drug Abuse [A Piece of My Mind]

Abuse Prevention: Drop Off Your Old Prescription Pills
Got some old prescriptions in your medicine cabinet? Don’t flush them. Safely get rid of them at the second Prescription Pill Drop-Off at four Food Lion stores from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Saturday, May 22. The purpose of the event is to prevent potential misuse of prescription drugs. More than 44,000 pills were collected last year at the first drop-off event. Prescription drug abuse is a growing …

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Military service counts more and more for veterans accused of crimes
The plea was passionate, dramatic and effective: haunted to addiction by memories of a Bosnian mass grave and the shooting of a teen in Honduras, former U.S. Army Capt. Sargent Binkley robbed tw…

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Intellectualization of Drug Abuse [A Piece of My Mind]
JAMA. 2010;303(19):1894-1895. Health care professionals and physicians in particular have rates of substance abuse that are equal to and often exceed those observed in the general public. 1-2 These estimates may even be low, as many studies rely on self-reported data.

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