Prescription Drugs Kill One Person Every 19 Minutes

Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes – The Quiet Epidemic: prescription drug abuse destroys millions of lives Nancy Rosen-Cohen The Baltimore Sun There isn’t much attention paid to prescription dr…

Prescription for addiction: State probe finds poor oversight fuels 'epidemic …

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But while investigators placed these illegal operations within a culture of casual prescription painkiller abuse – which was linked to a rise in heroin addiction among young adults – they offered little direction about how to address larger, more …
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Why America's Addiction Treatment System Is Broken & What You Can Do

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This is one of the reasons outcomes are so poor across the field, said Ben Levenson, co-founder of Origins Recovery Centers, a comprehensive facility that offers treatment for substance abuse and co-occurring disorders. Levenson understands addiction …
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Yolo County agencies work to treat meth addiction

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Larsen, director of CommuniCare's behavioral health services, has treated substance abuse for 20 years, with 14 of those years at CommuniCare, giving her a good perspective on drug use in the county. She regards addiction as a chronic disease …
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