drug use

Teen Mom: Jenelle Evans Back in Rehab for Heroin, Drug Use Caused

Teen Mom: Jenelle Evans Back In Rehab For Heroin, Drug Use Caused

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Evans had entered a California rehab in 2011 and lost custody of her son, Jace long before the stint to her mother, and now wants to practice sobriety for the sake of her son in order to gain full custody, "She has been doing drugs, and she really …
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Talk Focuses on Teen Drug Abuse

Talk focuses on teen drug abuse

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The Newbury Park High School PFA will host a Parent Talk titled “Not in Our House: How to Protect Your Teens from Drug Abuse” at 7 p.m. Wed., March 6 in the performing arts center at the school, 456 Reino Road. The presenter is Carolyn Hall, marriage …
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Shooting Tragedy Ignites Cultural Battle

Shooting Tragedy Ignites Cultural Battle

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He worked for years to make a dent in crime and substance abuse in Lower Ocean and the Beach Flats. “Santa Cruz has a drug and alcohol problem, and needs to figure out how to get a handle on it,” Larsen says. “People … Garza lamented, “In an effort …
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Drug Testing of Adolescents in Schools – Sharon Levy, MD, MPH


 

What Is 25-I, the Drug Used by Fatally Shot USA Student Gil Collar?

What is 25-I, the drug used by fatally shot USA student Gil Collar?

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“You're so high,” said Ashleigh Simon, clinical director of The Bridge Addiction Treatment Centers, which works with adolescents who use drugs. “You don't feel the effects of any type of physical attack.” Simon, who has counseled some teens who have …
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Medical-Addiction Question?

Question by Brett H: Medical-addiction Question?
Hey, I’m 26 and have been reliant upon opiates since I was 18. Finally, at 23 and after months of fatigue/sickness, countless attempts at anti-depressants, treatment centers, counseling, and psychiatrists, I began methadone at the Southern Indiana Treatment Center. At first I felt much better, but rather than decrease the dose my levels were increased to “find me a stable dose where I feel semi-normal.”. Needless to say I am now on 110 mg of methadone once daily. I still feel crappy half the time and have started realizing that my body, with the way it metabolizes medicine so quickly, may never be OK without it. The peak-and-trough blood serum test suggests my body needs 140. Should I accept the fact that my body will always need opiates? Anyone have any suggestions?