Good Drugs Gone Bad: Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention

Published October 16, 2013

Good Drugs Gone Bad: Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention – According to the most recent risk behavior study in Wisconsin, one in five kids have admitted to abusing prescription drugs to get high.

Substance-use prevention information session

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Surrey parents are invited to an information session on teen substance use prevention being held at Lord Tweedsmuir Secondary. Parents for Prevention is aimed at parents of teenagers – and those with children in Grades 6 and 7 who will be making the …
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The deadly hold of prescription drug abuse: Opinion

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Instead, prevention should be the focus: dramatically reducing the number of people who become addicted in the first place. In New Jersey, 7,238 people were admitted to state-licensed substance-abuse facilities in 2011, a threefold increase over the …
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Column: Mystic Valley works to prevent drug abuse

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This coalition, the Mystic Valley Public Health Coalition, applied as a cluster and was awarded the Massachusetts Opioid Abuse Prevention Collaborative grant consisting of $ 100,000 per year for at least three years, possibly up to seven years. This …
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