What If Holiday Stress Leads To Prescription Drug Abuse?
He says stress and depression could cause a holiday rise in alcohol and prescription drug misuse or overdose. "A lot of people really increase their drinking around the times of the holiday, their alcohol use. And there's a huge risk in mixing alcohol …
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Bradley Cooper admits early career doubt and drug addiction made him want to …
But life wasn't always so good for 39-year-old actor Bradley Cooper, as he opens up in an honest interview with GQ about his past addictions, and how during the beginning of his career he wanted to 'kill himself.' The Limitless and the BAFTA award …
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Big Pharma Pimps Alcoholics–With Government Help
Imagine a treatment for drug addiction and alcoholism that uses no drugs, requires no trained personnel, resources or insurance and makes no money for anyone. This "people's program" is the anonymous 12-Step groups which have quietly saved millions …
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Shia LaBeouf blames plagiarism woes on drug habit… in a mea culpa lifted …
The plagiarism apologies continue to mount as Shia LaBeouf took to Twitter on Saturday to blame his actions on a drug addiction… in a tweet mostly lifted from rapper Gucci Mane's own mea culpa. The 27-year-old tweeted: 'Im addicted to lean & that sh …
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Report: States failing to curb prescription abuse
Prescription drug misuse is now responsible for more deaths than heroin and cocaine combined. Despite these shocking statistics, a new report from Trust for America's Health finds many states are lacking effective strategies to curb prescription drug …
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Oreos as 'addictive' as cocaine in lab rat study
Previous studies in rodents and in humans have shown the same area of the brain that lights up on scans when people use drugs, also shows increased activity when study participants consume, or even look at, high fat, high sugar foods like ice cream or …
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ETSU scholars get .2M for drug abuse prevention
JOHNSON CITY (AP) – East Tennessee State University has received a more-than-$ 2.2 million grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse to launch a research program aimed at battling prescription drug abuse. According to the school, a team of …
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PROSPER prevention programs dramatically cut substance abuse among teens
Prevention is often the best medicine, not only for physical health, but also public health, according to researchers at Penn State and Iowa State University. According to the researchers, young adults reduce their overall prescription drug misuse up …
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Comment: Drug abuse prevention saves lives and cuts costs
It is unacceptable for us to think that we can ignore the drug problem and it will just go away. We are a country still living in deep denial about drug use by youth. Journey believes that the three sentences destroying youth – more than any other …
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Marijuana Users More Likely To Abuse Prescription Drugs?
However … the study by Quest Diagnostics, "A Report on Marijuana and Prescription Drug Misuse in America," found that medical marijuana patients were not more likely to abuse outside drugs. Interesting. The research will be presented at the American …
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Maine reps back bill to legalize marijuana use
Already 18 states and the District of Columbia permit medical marijuana use, creating a newborn industry that in 2011 reaped an estimated $ 1.5 billion in profit, according the publication Medical Marijuana Business Daily.The MMBD estimates that next …
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New national study examines marijuana use and prescription drug misuse
Individuals who use marijuana recreationally are more likely to misuse other drugs, including pain-controlling, but potentially addictive narcotics, sedatives and other prescription medications, than individuals who do not use marijuana, according to a …
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