Heroin Abuse Continues To Rip Apart Metro East Families
Heroin Abuse Continues To Rip Apart Metro East Families
GRANITE CITY, Ill. (KMOX) – While some treatment centers in the Metro East area have fewer people seeking help for heroin addiction, other counselors continue to be overwhelmed. Susan Taylor with Chestnut Health Systems in Illinois says the epidemic …
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Environmental Sampling Identifies Heroin and other Illicit Drugs
This staggering number shows the significant level of abuse of this Schedule I substance as listed by the Controlled Substances Act. Heroin is a highly addictive drug and one of the most rapidly acting of the opiates. On the street it goes by names …
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Groups address increasing heroin threat in western suburbs
Closely monitor prescription medications, particularly pain-killers serving as the gateway drug to heroin in 25 percent of cases. If their own son hadn't struggled with the death-grip of a heroin addiction, a local couple would scarcely believe seven …
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Medical examiner halts autopsies in drug, alcohol abuse deaths
Medical examiner halts autopsies in drug, alcohol abuse deaths
BY VICTORIA JOHNSON AND HUNTER CLAUSS Staff Reporters May 16, 2012 12:50PM A staffing shortage has prompted the Cook County medical examiner's office to halt full autopsies in some cases where a person died from drug or alcohol abuse.
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One in eight deaths before retirement is caused by alcohol, study finds
By Claire Bates One in eight deaths of UK adults under the age of 64 is caused by alcohol, an international conference on tackling problem drinking has heard. The social cost of alcohol abuse has been estimated to be £240 a year for each European, …
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Music Industry Addresses Drug, Alcohol Problems
The drug-related deaths of popular entertainers like Whitney Houston have focused attention on drug and alcohol abuse, both inside and outside the entertainment industry. Celebrities may be at special risk, but some in the industry say they are …
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Gambling addictions 'should be health issue'
Gambling addictions 'should be health issue'
Anti-pokies senator Nick Xenophon will argue the case for treating gambling addiction as a health issue at a public seminar in Wollongong this week. The South Australian senator wants to see the shame lifted from problem gamblers and a dramatic …
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Gambling not an addiction say University of Sydney researchers
Many people talk of problem gambling as an 'addiction' but work coming out of the University of Sydney's Gambling Treatment Clinic suggests that this may not be the case. "The idea of gambling addiction is widespread, but inaccurate," says the clinic's …
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A new approach for problem gambling
Dr Anjoul says there are often misconceptions within the community of gambling problems being an addiction similar to drug or alcohol addiction. "It's about time we actually start promoting and alternative view of gambling primarily because we don't …
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