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Problem Of Drinking Amongst College Freshman Not Going Away

College symbolizes independence, higher education, widening horizons. But for a freshman crossing the campus for the first time, it can be intimidating. When the stress of the first semester gets to be too much, drinking appears to be the way out.

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Heroin Use Soaring Suburban Teens Most At Risk

A new trend is happening with teens concerning drug use; and it’s not underage drinking, marijuana or synthetic drug use. The drug of choice for teens has just become heroin. And the number of teens using the drug is shocking.

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College Drinking Spikes Among Freshmen

When teens first make their way off to college, they are often filled with an overwhelming sense of liberation and freedom. They are taking their first steps in the world on their own, away from mom and dad. They are ready to try new things, taste life.

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Early Drinking Puts Kids at Greater Risk For Alcohol Abuse Later In Life

Let’s face it. Alcohol is a recreational drug that is socially accepted. There are commercials for it that play on every commercial break of every American sporting event dating back to our Grandpa’s days. It is served at parties, weddings, holidays,...

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Opana Overtakes Oxycontin as Prescription Abuse Surges in U.S.

When drug enforcement agencies and the pharmaceutical companies make changes to increase the difficulty in obtaining prescription pain medication and altering it to get high, drug addicts find new ways to get their fix.

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America’s Addiction To Illicit Drugs Declining And Prescription Painkiller Abuse Growing

Regarding America’s drug epidemic, there’s good news and there’s bad news as discovered within the findings of the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The good news is that we are seeing a decline in the use of illicit drugs.

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Bath Salts Addiction

Just as addictive as cocaine but you can buy it online or at a specialty store which makes it a dangerous combination. The salts contain Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and mephedrone, psychoactive drugs with stimulant properties.

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Adderall Abuse Becoming More Popular Among Teens

There are plenty of stories covering the phenomenon of students abusing Adderall. Young people in high school and college are relying on Adderall as a stimulant to help them stay up long hours and focus on studies far beyond their normal limits.

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Increasing Marijuana Use Impairs Driving and Causes Other Problems

It’s bad enough that teens are smoking marijuana at the highest rate in thirty years, outnumbering even those that smoke cigarettes, but they are often willing to drive after doing so constituting a very dangerous combination.

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Report Finds More Emotional Woes In College Kids Who Abuse Prescription Drugs

It’s no secret that while in college, a large proportion of students become involved in complicated and dangerous activities that have nothing to do with their educations.

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Teens Now Using Marijuana More Than Tobacco Products

Recently, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the results of a survey, which found that 23 percent of high school students say that they’ve recently smoked marijuana, while 19 percent of high school students report that they’ve...

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The Basics Of Crack Cocaine Addiction

Crack cocaine is widely thought of as one of the most addictive drugs in existence. Crack is an even more addictive form of cocaine. It is produced by making a solution of cocaine, sodium bicarbonate, and water.

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The Recent California Drug Arrest Issues

California is one of the United States’ most beautiful states. It has a little of everything: Warm sunny weather, mountains, valleys, beaches, redwood forests, snowy slopes and even the epicenter for show business. However, California in all its beauty...

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Despite Dangers Adderall Remains Popular Study Drug For Students

Go to any college campus and ask a student if he (or she) knows anyone who uses Adderall. It is very unlikely that you will find someone who will say no. Maybe they don’t use it themselves, but they will know others who do.

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Adderall Remains Popular Study Drug on College Campuses

Despite attempts by student health services to filter out the fakers, the abuse of Adderall to enhance a student’s ability to study is as widespread as ever.

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Study Shows Social Media May Hinder Drug Abuse Recovery

A small preliminary study has shown that if a person is trying to recover from a history of substance abuse, prowling social media may get in the way of staying sober. This was the result of a survey administered to 37 teens who were trying to get off...

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Illicit Use Declines But Painkiller Epidemic Continues

The nation’s fastest-growing drug problem isn’t the abuse of cocaine or methamphetamine. Heroin is also not the number one concern. The issue of prescription painkiller abuse is the number one drug problem gaining national attention at this moment.

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America Discovers One In Eight US Teens Misuses Pain Drugs

A new analysis of surveys done between 2007 and 2009 among American teens shows that one in eight US teens misuses pain drugs. This survey shows also that the age at which teens started abusing these drugs was younger than anticipated.

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New Trend Toward Abusing Hand Sanitizer for Alcohol Content Lands Some Teens In Hospital

Yet another product off the grocery stores shelves has developed a new life as something to be abused to get high. Now, hand sanitizer joins glue, compressed air for cleaning computers, spray paint and other innocent products as an item that needs to be...

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Study Finds Most Alcohol Drug Abuse Starts In Teen Years

Recent surveys of teens and young adults have turned up a startling new fact. More than one study finds most alcohol and drug abuse starts in teen years.