Are Parents Powerless When Teens Abuse Rx Drugs?
Are Parents Powerless when Teens Abuse Rx Drugs?
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
During October and November, the Healthy Kids blog will look at this issue through the stories of former teen prescription-drug users now in recovery, their parents and local addiction-recovery experts working to treat addicted teens and help parents …
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Doctor pleads guilty to abortion clinic infections
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
In Victoria's Supreme Court, former anaesthetist James Latham Peters pleaded guilty to 55 counts of negligently causing serious injury to the women by infecting them with the virus in 2008 and 2009. Peters, who had a history of drug abuse, injected …
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Who can it be now?
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
In June 2008, after a series of threatening texts, "G" demanded Hogan pay him $ 175,000. A month later, she …. It was 2003, and Elphick, recovering from a brief drug addiction, was staying at a girlfriend's house in Adelaide, where Gwilliam was also …
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Impact on Children Part 1: Genetics of Sex Addiction
Filed under: drug addiction news 2008
Researchers have been investigating the genetic factors in drug and alcohol addiction for many years using identical twins vs. non-identical twins. It is reported that approximately 50% of the predisposition to addiction was accounted for by …
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