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Opioid Painkillers Can Kill Patients Too

Opioid painkillers can kill patients too
That figure doesn't include the number of people who will become addicted to painkillers prescribed by their physicians, bought on the black market or pilfered from a friend or family member. “We don't know who is going to be addicted until it happens …
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School pushes for open talk about drug use
He started using marijuana but over time the drug didn't help him calm down, so he moved to something stronger, Opana (an opioid painkiller), Barber said. "Addiction takes over the entire family," Barber said. "My son never had the chance to have a …
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Dealing with drug overdose issue
John Kasich signed HB 170, enacted in response to a record high number of fatal overdoses from heroin or painkillers, in mid-March. The law allows law enforcement officers, friends or relatives of addicts, or emergency medical responders who aren't …
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Freedomaddiction.ca-Freedom Addiction Aurora Hits CTS TV

Freedomaddiction.ca-Freedom Addiction Aurora Hits CTS TV
Freedom from Addiction drug and alcohol rehab centre expert counsellors appear regularly on CTS TV's Living Clean, Living Well on Sundays.
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Have you seen this man? Toronto gripped by frenzied search for Rob Ford as speculation mounts crackhead mayor is NOT …
Is crack-smoking Rob Ford actually in rehab? That is the question troubling Toronto after their embattled mayor decided to break his silence one week after taking a leave of absence to deal with alcohol and drug addiction.
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'Rob Ford Must Go' campaign continues protest despite mayor's absence
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has taken a temporary leave of absence from city hall amid fresh reports of drunken boorishness, offensive comments and alleged drug use, though that hasn’t stopped him from making headlines. Since Ford announced he would seek … Continue reading ?
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If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: An Excerpt From Kurt Vonnegut’s Graduation Speeches Anthology

If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: An Excerpt from Kurt Vonnegut’s Graduation Speeches Anthology
By KATIE O’BRIEN In the preface of Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons, a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s opinion pieces published in 1974, Vonnegut explains how he “used to make speeches all the time” until something snapped in his brain after a question from a man in a Washington audience. “You are […]
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Patients caution lawmakers about role of pain medications
By Colleen Quinn State House News Service BOSTON — People coping with chronic pain cautioned lawmakers, looking for solutions to opiate-addiction problems, not to make pain medications so difficult to obtain that those who truly need them
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When Does Drug Addiction Occur?

Question by Legitimo E: When does Drug addiction occur?
Drug addiction occurs when
An individual will lie about taking a drug
A drug no longer causes a person to get high, but they take it again
Biological or psychological dependence on taking the drug develops
A person can be without the drug no longer than five days

Best answer:

Answer by joe_fleeman
Psychological dependence is just as destructive as physical dependence.
When it becomes your master is when the addiction begins.When you do what you have to to have it.

Answer by Tyler
Let’s put it in simple terms, then go onto the more complex answer.

Simple: Drug addiction occurs when an individual NEEDS the drug to live essentially, much like food and water, but the user will feel more compelled to use the drug, rather than eat and drink water.

Ultimate Warrior Cause of Death: Wrestler's Mysterious Passing Raised Steroid

Ultimate Warrior Cause Of Death: Wrestler's Mysterious Passing Raised Steroid
Grace insinuated that Warrior's death was self-inflicted, saying there were “accusations of steroids and illegal drugs swirling.” While Warrior has admitted to using steroids in the past, there had been no evidence linking his death to drug use. Now …
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Calgary Stabbings: How Knife Crime In Canada Can Cause 'Moral Panic'
“Instead of focusing so much on the weapons issue being used, maybe a better way to look at it is to think about addiction issues, alcoholism, drug abuse. That's what drives crimes,” Holmgren said. “It's not your drawer of knives.” Loading Slideshow .
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Deputies Seize Synthetic Drugs From Strip Mall

Deputies seize synthetic drugs from strip mall
VICTORVILLE • A San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department narcotics team seized 123 packets of synthetic drugs from JP's Liquor Store and Amargosa Smoke Shop and Mini Mart in Victorville on Monday. Wasef Jarjour … The drugs are believed to cause …
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High time to end this immoral drugs war
It is 43 years since Richard Nixon, in need of a public enemy to shore up support for his snarling style of uncompassionate conservatism, declared war on a new target. "America's public enemy No 1 is drug abuse," he declared, warning Congress that the …
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Other Therapeutic Options for Drug Dependents
Whether euphemistically termed “substance abuse, recreational drug use, or drug dependence,” narcotic drug addiction is one of the worst problems faced by society today. As of 2012, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, nearly 24 million …
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