Editorial: Drug Addiction Is a Public Health Crisis

Editorial: Drug addiction is a public health crisis

Filed under: drug addiction help

Torrington has been struggling with addiction for so long, and yet short-sightedness and nimbyism have put up roadblocks to efforts aimed at helping heroin addicts in the region. Public sentiment for the proposed methadone clinic in Torrington leans …
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Drug addiction changes the brain

Filed under: drug addiction help

The implications of the findings are that new ways to help drug users to overcome addictions might be found. The lead researcher, Yasmin Hurd of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, was quoted by The Scientist as saying: "In heroin users, there …
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Coalition taking aim at drug abuse

Filed under: drug addiction help

ELKINS – The group that helped develop a new proposed ordinance to ban the dangerous synthetic hallucinogens known as bath salts in Randoph County has other plans for helping rid the area of drug abuse, as well. The Randolph County America's …
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