The New War: Prescription Drug Overdose Is Now a Top Killer in Georgia. the Plague of Abuse Has Taken Root in Our …
The New War: Prescription drug overdose is now a top killer in Georgia. The plague of abuse has taken root in our …
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This is the first in a series of stories highlighting the rise of the prescription drug trade in our town, a local womanâs destructive struggle with pill addiction and the ongoing battlefront in Pierce County.
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Metropolitan Drug Commission hosts legislative luncheon on prescription drug abuse
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Some of the area’s top lawmakers and leaders gathered Tuesday at the University of Tennessee to talk about the epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction.
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Med students take anti-Rx drug abuse program into local schools
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Jennifer Belsky, a member of the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine (OU-HCOM) Pediatric Club, began a drug education presentation to teacher Lora Lavelle’s eighth-grade health class last Thursday, with a question: “How many of you guys think there is a drug problem in Athens?”
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Drug Addiction Consequences: Narconon Warning
Narconon Deals with Drug Addiction Consequences. States Waste Billions Dealing with Consequences of Addiction, CASA Study Says Narconon Warns that the vast majority of the estimated 7.7 billion in substance-abuse related spending by governments on substance-abuse problems went to deal with the consequences of alcohol, tobacco and other drug use, not treatment and prevention, according to a new report from the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. The report, titled, “Shoveling Up II: The Impact of Substance Abuse on Federal, State and Local Budgets,” found that 95 percent of the 3.9 billion spent by the federal government and states went to paying for the societal and personal damage caused by alcohol and other drug use; the calculation included crime, health care costs, child abuse, domestic violence, homelessness and other consequences of tobacco, alcohol and illegal and prescription drug abuse and addiction. Narconon Just 1.9 percent went to treatment and prevention, while 0.4 percent was spent on research, 1.4 percent went towards taxation and regulation, and 0.7 percent went to interdiction. “Such upside-down-cake public policy is unconscionable,” said Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s founder and chairman. “It’s past time for this fiscal and human waste to end.” CASA estimated that the federal government spent 8.2 billion on substance-abuse related issues in 2005, while states spent 5.8 billion and local …
Urban Suicide: The Enemy We Choose Not to See
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URBAN SUICIDE is a forbidden, tell all indoctrination of the state of Black America that will stir powerful dialogue and debate over the number one enemy of today’s Black Man…HIMSELF! Not since George Orwell’s 1984, has one sided propaganda impacted on the ideals of society and predicted the self-induced genocide of an entire culture within urban communities. To read Melvin BlackMan’s testimony is like staring into the barrel of a loaded pistol, but only YOU can resist to pull the trigger and
Urban Suicide: The Enemy We Choose Not to See
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