Narcotics Addiction News

Bellingham selectmen favor marijuana grow facility
Milford Daily News
A military veteran, Mandile said he was injured in Iraq, beginning an addiction to prescription opioids. “After a failed suicide attempt, my wife gave me an ultimatum,” he said. “She suggested I try medical marijuana.” Mandile said it had been two ...

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La Crosse Tribune
Holmen man sentenced to prison for meth distribution | Crime and ...
La Crosse Tribune
For years, he was tied in a massive drug trafficking enterprise that funneled methamphetamine into the region, although attorneys disagree on his level of ...

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The Sun
Nursing assistant who went to work so high she'd pass out on ...
The Sun
Nursing assistant who went to work so high she'd pass out on patients' beds finally beat her booze and pill addiction by going 'cold turkey' - and is now an ...
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GoodTherapy.org (blog)
States with Lax Marijuana Laws Have Higher Usage Rates
GoodTherapy.org (blog)
According to a new study, states that have legalized marijuana for medical and/or recreational purposes have higher rates of marijuana use among adults.

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TAVAD Ultra-Rapid Cocaine Detoxification Improves Rehabilitation in 7 Out Of 10 Patients One Year Later
PharmiWeb.com (press release)
In keeping with previous years, the TAVAD detoxification center continues to achieve excellent results in its ultra-rapid cocaine detoxification treatment. 100% of patients treated for cocaine addiction in 2016 underwent detoxification without ...

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Fox News
High hopes ride on marijuana painkillers amid opioid crisis
Fox News
The companies are targeting the more than 100 million Americans who suffer from chronic pain, and are dependent on opioid painkillers such as Vicodin, or addicted to street opiates including heroin. Opioid overdose, which claimed celebrities including ...

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Hindustan Times
Drug abuse: Why 80% kids in Delhi's Seemapuri turn addicts, some as young as 7
Hindustan Times
International Day Against Drug Abuse: Peer pressure, family history, involvement in jobs like rag picking and segregation, easy accessibility found to be most common factors leading to addiction in this east Delhi locality; study ordered by Juvenile ...

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The Indian Express
Binge drinking, cocaine abuse may impair mental skills
The Indian Express
For the study, published online in the journal Addiction, the team analysed data from 36,085 respondents to create two cognitive scales based on dimensionality and reliability. Complete abstinence or reduced substance use may lead to gradual ...

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Queens Tribune
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Case not closed: Debate still rages over impact of legal marijuana on youth
Berkshire Eagle (subscription)
... and Mental Health Services Administration which cited "health risks associated with youth marijuana use, including poorer education/employment outcomes, poorer cognitive outcomes, increased likelihood of vehicle crashes, and increased addiction risk."

The Inquisitr
Marijuana-Based Painkillers Could Be The Answer To Nation's ...
The Inquisitr
With the opioid overdose epidemic gripping the nation, more and more drug companies are aggressively trying to develop alternative treatments for pain.

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BBC News
Iran's drug problem: Addicts 'more than double' in six years
BBC News
A spokesman for the Drug Control Organisation, Parviz Afshar, said that marijuana and its derivatives accounted for 12% of drug consumption in Iran, with methamphetamine, a stimulant that affects the central nervous system, accounting for about 8%.

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Janesville Gazette
Meth and heroin in Walworth County: two epidemics linked
Janesville Gazette
It works like this: Supporting a heroin addiction is expensive. A user needs another way to pay the dealer. The dealer suggests the user pick up some ingredients to make meth because there are laws limiting how much pseudoephedrine a user can buy at ...

The Guardian
Life after opioid addiction: three survivors tell how they got clean
The Guardian
“There are students on these campuses who kicked addiction and went through the worst of it, and now they're the best students in their class,” said Grahovac, who has been sober for more than 12 years. Grahovac's addiction arrived on the back of an ...

Times Record News
Trapped in a pit of addiction
Times Record News
One day I am enjoying the presence of my friends who are meth addicts, the next day they don't respond to texts, they miss work, their vehicles have disappeared, their kids are left alone … they have vanished. We, their support network, recount our ...

Kotatv
Rapid City walks against meth
Kotatv
There were groups in the crowd like 'Wellfully' who provide services to youth struggling with addiction. Richie Richards with Rapid City Collective Impact, designed the walk to go through North Rapid as he said it's a high risk area for meth. “We want ...

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Letter: Give marijuana a role in opioid epidemic fight
Berkshire Eagle (subscription)
Reclassification of marijuana to Schedule III or higher is crucial to promote extensive research into its medicinal benefits, most profoundly to include cannabis as an FDA-approved MAT harm reduction adjunct for opioid addiction. In the meantime, we ...

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Shreveport Times
Ruston's Hockenjos overcomes meth addiction
Shreveport Times
Homeless for seven months as he purged his soul of the demons that controlled his life, Ruston's Luke Hockenjos overcame a meth addiction thanks to a praying mother just as he was on the verge of killing a man in a road rage incident. That in a ...

The West Australian
A mother's story: finding hope amid the scourge of meth addiction
The West Australian
I first had the courage to speak out about my daughter's methamphetamine addiction two years ago in an article in The West Australian. My daughter was a chronic meth addict and had been using for six years. She was offered it by a “friend” at a time ...

Salt Lake Tribune
Gehrke: Marijuana initiative offers hope in face of legislative apathy — just ask my friend Forrest
Salt Lake Tribune
And Brian Stoll, who broke his neck and back in a fall while he was a student at Brigham Young University and was prescribed fistfuls of opioids before he discovered he could get relief from medical marijuana without the damaging side effects and ...

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