'Correctional' Has Lost It Meaning
'Correctional' has lost it meaning
This video, handed to the Jali Commission of Inquiry tasked with investigating corruption within prisons, revealed widespread drug and alcohol abuse within the prison. Controversially, the video showed warders drinking alcohol with inmates. Sometimes …
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Toddler: Heroin stuffed in boy's jacket
The video message posted on the Justice Department's website reflects the federal government's concern about the growing prevalence of heroin and prescription painkillers' abuse. … But he said more work is needed to prevent and treat drug addiction.
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Is Marijuana a Harmfull Drug?
Question by Stonerboner: Is marijuana a harmfull drug?
Absolutly not. Marijuana is not even a drug, it’s grown out of the ground and needs sunlight, soil, and water inorder to live. Drugs use a certain substance extracted from a plant, but in order to produce the drug harmful chemicals are used. My knowledge has been expanded since I started smoking. It is physically impossible to become addicted and there has never been an OD from marijuana use. It’s actually quite sad that the government is soo afraid of marijuana. Hemp from the marijuana plant can replace cotton, which needs a lot of water to grow healthily. And oils from the cannabis seed can replace the quickly diminishing oil that we are fighting and dieing for in the mid east. Marijuana can be harmful to your lungs, but that is what vaporizers are for. Personally smoking marijuana has no effect on my athletic abilities. It has expanded my mind in ways i couldn’t imagine. Please give me feed back on your opinion and thought about marijuana.
Clarence Page: Don't Overreact to Celebrity Drug Deaths
Clarence Page: Don't overreact to celebrity drug deaths
As his many obituaries and tributes recount, Hoffman had been clean of drugs and alcohol for two decades, during which he had a brilliant career. Then he started taking prescription pain pills two years ago and checked into a rehab program last year.
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Heroin is becoming the drug of choice of the young, the restless, the dead …
There are no signs that the opiate onslaught is slowing as more young people are graduating from the abuse of oxycontin and other prescription painkillers, and digging early graves with heroin. Ohio will not be able to build enough prisons, or arrest …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Points to Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic
Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
Most people who abuse pills don't have legal prescriptions for them. They get them from family and friends, and sometimes from drug dealers. Young people may view them as safer than street drugs such as heroin because they are manufactured as medicine …
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South Florida Is Seeing An 'Epidemic' Of Heroin Abuse
MIAMI (Reuters) – A high-profile law enforcement crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse in Florida has addicts turning increasingly to heroin, resulting in the highest number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations in recent years, a report on drug …
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How Parents Can Protect Kids From the ADHD 'Epidemic'
How Parents Can Protect Kids From the ADHD 'Epidemic'
But the idea that ADHD should never be diagnosed and treated misses the clinical reality that some kids have an early onset of severely impairing symptoms that do require diagnosis and do respond well to treatment. The ridiculous … Doctors are …
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Heroin's Small-Town Toll, and a Mother's Grief
Heroin deaths of teenagers and young adults tripled in the first decade of this century. And those statistics lag behind heroin's … Overdose deaths began to rise sharply in the latter half of the previous decade among young whites. Death rates since …
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Why Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Is So Scary for Reformed Addicts
Why Philip Seymour Hoffman's death is so scary for reformed addicts
(We do know that relapse rates for drug and alcohol addiction are comparable to people's inability to control other chronic illnesses, such as type 2 diabetes, asthma, and hypertension.) The challenges are as basic as agreeing on a definition for long …
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Breaking the cycle: Heroin's deadly grip on addicts
The growing epidemic of addiction to opioids — a class of drugs that includes heroin and prescription painkillers — has been well-documented by the medical community. But as stories of celebrity deaths like Philip Seymour Hoffman and Corey Monteith …
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