OPIOID ABUSE
Is a Hospital Survey Worsening Our Addiction Problem?
When we see a doctor, we want to think that the doctor is deciding on the best care to make us healthy again. But what if that doctor was under pressure to change what he recommends for us? Surely that could not be good for the patients of any doctor under that kind of pressure.
Sue Birkenshaw
July 22, 2014
Are There Really Opioids in Every Town in America?
It seems like everywhere you look these days, there’s news about opioids. This is both good and bad. It’s bad because this means there are so many opioids in circulation that people need to be notified that there’s a problem.
KH
What Needs to be Done to Prevent Opiate Abuse?
For more than a decade, the number of prescriptions for opiate and opioid pain relievers has been climbing. As the number of prescriptions climbed and the number of pills in circulation increased, more people discovered the euphoric effects of abusing these drugs and began to do so.
New Teen Drug Abuse Trends Indicate To Check Your Medicine Cabinet
Adolescents no longer have to turn to school dealers for drugs–they can find their high right in their own home. More and more kids are turning to the medicine cabinet for drug abuse, to their parents’ dismay.
Across US Unregulated Prescribing Means Abuse Of Opioid Drugs Hit All-Time High
One after another, media are waking up to what drug enforcement and police have known for some time. When you lose a large number of people to painkiller overdoses, you have to admit that abuse of opioid drugs hit an all-time high.
John’s Heroin Addiction Recovery
John tells his story of how he started with alcohol at age 13 and then progressed to more and more drugs until he finally ended up addicted to heroin and opioids. He then found the Narconon program and beat his addiction.
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