“NOT MY KID?” EXPERT PANEL SAYS SURGE in HEROIN ABUSE IMPACTS …
“NOT MY KID?” EXPERT PANEL SAYS SURGE IN HEROIN ABUSE IMPACTS …
A number of factors have converged to cause this alarming surge: wide availability, a cost that's less than alcohol or marijuana, skyrocketing increases in prescriptions for highly-addictive painkillers, and the elimination of needles for heroin, in …
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The hype for legal drugs
… main goal, which is to discourage drug use and abuse? We can't know what would have happened if drugs had been legal for the past few decades or, for that matter, if the United States had waged a war on drugs half as harshly as Singapore, where a …
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RI police chiefs to consider use of Narcan
There has been an increase in deaths associated with the use of fentanyl, a powerful painkiller implicated in dozens of fatalities in the Northeast, in some cases in combination with heroin. Naloxone, also known as Narcan, … Under the "collaborative …
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