Pills Prove a Prescription for Addiction

Published November 25, 2012

Pills prove a prescription for addiction

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Research by the National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre at the University of NSW recently found 500 Australians aged 15 to 54 died of an opiate overdose in 2008, up from 360 in 2007. Only one-third involved heroin. Preliminary figures suggest there …
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Reading Letters: RCASA opposes Question 3

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

The 2008-2009 State Estimates of Drug Abuse show that four of the top five states, and 14 of the 18 states with the highest percentage of past month marijuana users ages 12-17 are states with “medical marijuana” programs. A 2012 study shows that among …
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Legalization of marijuana

Filed under: drug addiction news 2008

Alcohol is legal and proven to be more addictive than marijuana. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention … But consider this: pain patients are mostly female, whereas a recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health found that adult …
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