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Drug Abuse

                   

Using Technology To Fight Drug Abuse

peacelink.org
Sep 29, 2008
        

An IT lecturer at South Africa’s Cape Peninsula University of Technology has started a drug counselling service using the cell phone chat service known as Mxit and the Facebook social networking application. Mr Marlon...

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Appendix A: Regulation of Addictive Substances

health.am
Sep 27, 2008 1 related
        

The United States has made various social and legislative attempts to deal with addiction, especially in the twentieth century. But history reflects our society’s ambivalence about whether to outlaw addictive substances...

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"ADDICTION IS A DISEASE"

addictiontoday.org
Sep 26, 2008 3 related
        

“Drug [including alcohol] addictions are medical diseases which deserve parity in national healthcare programmes...” states scientist and professor Carlton Erickson, as he reveals the neurobiological research. Although...

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Whitesboro confronts prescription drugs

uticaod.com
Sep 26, 2008
        

Whitesboro High School Monday became the second local school recently to experience instances of a national trend: the abuse of prescription drugs by teenagers. Stephen Smith and Matthew Landers, both 17 and of Marcy,...

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Detention Centre 'Stole our souls'.

newsvine.com
Sep 25, 2008 1 related
        

News Type: Event — Thu Sep 25, 2008 1:20 AM EDT HURT and humiliated... 'Trish' who was institutionalized in 1979, said guards set out to crush the childrens's spirits. Medical records (these were mine as I stole them)...

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Corrections, mental health officials to talk about drug abuse

wtop.com
Sep 25, 2008
        

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A legislative committee studying substance abuse in Virginia plans to hear from corrections and mental heath officials on the problem. Committee members also will hear about the efforts made by the...

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Drug use triggered mental illness

bbc.co.uk
Sep 24, 2008 1 related
        

William Moss was a "doting father" to his three-year-old daughter A man who repeatedly stabbed his best friend in a "savage attack" has been cleared of murder because his drug abuse had triggered mental illness. William...

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Caffeine Experts Call For Warning Labels For Energy Drinks

sciencedaily.com
Sep 24, 2008 32 related
        

Scientists who have spent decades researching the effects of caffeine report that a slew of caffeinated energy drinks now on the market should carry prominent labels that note caffeine doses and warn of potential health...

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It’s time to get serious about teen drug use

thefacts.com
Sep 24, 2008 1 related
        

Published September 24, 2008 If your teen says it’s 4:20 (four-twenty), then what time is it? It’s time to let him or her know that you are on to them and sit down to a serious discussion about their drug use. According...

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Federal grant bolsters Falmouth anti-drug program

capecodonline.com
Sep 24, 2008
        

FALMOUTH — The town has received a $625,000 grant to help prevent young children from experimenting with drugs and alcohol. Falmouth Human Services and the Falmouth Substance Abuse Commission received the federal grant...

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