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10 Ways You Can Help Children of Alcoholics

10 Ways You Can Help Children of Alcoholics

Filed under: drug addiction help for family

Only with some form of (preferably long-term) help, whether inpatient drug rehab, a sober living home or otherwise, can the entire family system get well. #2 Get Help for the Child. Children of alcoholics need ongoing help just like their addicted …
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Tip Jar Donation

Tip Jar Donation

Filed under: Colorado Drug Treatment Centers

In November, voters in three Western states — Colorado, Oregon, and Washington — will get the chance to weigh in on whether or not marijuana should be regulated much like alcohol is. If these pot legalization ballot … The Oregon initiative, for …
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Pharmaceutical Company Helping in Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse

Pharmaceutical company helping in fight against prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

Unique tablet markings, monitoring of drug counterfeiting and Internet distribution, analyses of pharmacy robbery and thefts in a database and tracking the supply chain are all part of the company's effort to combat abuse and diversion of prescription …
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Teens Increasingly Abuse Prescription Painkillers

Teens increasingly abuse prescription painkillers

Filed under: Colorado Drug Abuse

"I think many parents just don't realize how dangerous unsecured prescription drugs are to their children and their children's friends," said lead author Richard Miech, Ph.D. of the University of Colorado in Denver. Researchers used data from the …
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The Record: Dispensary to Open

The Record: Dispensary to open

Filed under: Colorado Drug Treatment Centers

The Record. Print | E-mail. WITH Colorado, Oregon and Washington holding referendums next month on legalizing marijuana for personal use, this can be a milestone election for the reform of drug laws. The Greenleaf center. Buy this photo. The Greenleaf …
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Drug Abuse: Another Punjab Study Too Pegged It at 70%

Drug abuse: Another Punjab study too pegged it at 70%

Filed under: drug addiction news articles

The study conducted by Prof RS Verma and Vaishali Misra chose two border tehsils from each district and based their study on interviews and information generated from a sample of more than 1,500 drug addicts. The report stated that of those doing drugs …
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