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Parents Need to Know the Facts About Teen Marijuana Use

Marijuana continues to be a national favorite among illicit drugs, according to a recent study by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). Prescription drug abuse, binge drinking, hallucinogens and even tobacco use are...

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Did Drug Abuse Drop Among Young Adults Or Has The Problem Shifted

A recent survey shows prescription drug use is down fourteen percent among adults ages eighteen to twenty-five, yet some addiction experts speculate that the problem has simply shifted over to different drugs, particularly heroin.

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Everyone Is Affected By Prescriptions Not Just Teens

We all know the dangers of teen drug abuse and with the recent surge in pharmaceutical popularity, parents often have to be more concerned about what they have in their own medicine cabinets than with illicit drug use at school or parties.

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Next Progression Of Prescription Addiction Is Heroin Abuse

In recent years, prescription drug abuse has skyrocketed with users heading down a darker path than they ever imagined. The most recent fork in the road has led them to heroin use—a place many users swore they would never go—for the plain and simple...

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Marijuana as a Gateway Drug Could Be Causing Nationwide Epidemic

A recent Yale study, which may be viewed online in the Journal of Adolescent Health, concluded that marijuana is definitely a gateway drug. The study focused on data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health from the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 of...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Conversion From Prescription Drugs To Street Opiates

Heroin Abuse Increases with First Time Users Starting at Younger Age As amazing as it might seem, there are some heroin users who maintain their addictions over decades.

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Parents Would Never Guess that Prescription Drug Abuse Can Be Abetted by Family and Friends

Parents may spend plenty of time talking to their children about the dangers of drinking and driving and some may warn their kids against smoking marijuana. But few take the time to advise their children to stay away from prescription drugs.

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Skittles Party By Teens Is Not What It Seems

A Skittles party could take the form of a home filled with teenagers where everyone brings all the prescription medications they have on hand and pool them. Then anyone at the party who wants to abuse a pill just dips in and grabs whatever they want.

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Study Finds Quarter of Suicide Victims are Intoxicated at Time of Death

After reviewing 58,000 suicide cases from across the US, researchers concluded that alcohol played a definite – and tragic – role in these deaths . While numbers varied by gender and ethnic background, on average, nearly a quarter of those who killed...

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Will Canada’s New Oxycodone Formulation—OxyNeo—Solve the Prescription Pain Reliever Problem?

After years of negotiating, Purdue Pharmaceutical and the Canadian Government finally settled on a way to improve the abuse and addiction problem that exists with OxyContin. On March 1, 2012, the new formulation called OxyNeo hit the shelves of pharmacies...