NIDA TV Spotlight on Carol Boyd: Prescription Drug Abuse in Youth

NIDA TV Spotlight on Carol Boyd: Prescription Drug Abuse in Youth – NIDA TV interview with University of Michigan Professor and NIDA Grantee, Carol Boyd, Ph.D, M.S.N. following her presentation on Prescription Drug Abuse in Y…

Thomas Koch: Governor's drug addiction initiative deserves wide support

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In the last dozen years, and partly as a result of the “Elephant in the Living Room” report that our study committee released, we have increased treatment capacity for drug abuse, instituted a prescription drug monitoring system, taken steps to prevent …
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Drug Addiction, Prescription Addiction, and Alcoholism: A New Understanding

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Prescription drugs are not different than street drugs. It is an arbitrary judgment to convince people there is a reason to criminalize the use of drugs. Laws do not really make one drug better or worse, as a drug is a drug, no matter how you label it …
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Twin Cities heroin, painkiller deaths surged in first half of 2013

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The pace of overdose deaths from heroin and prescription pain medicine abuse rose in the Twin Cities in the first part of last year, even as a battle raged to slow the deadly epidemic. That's the finding of a new drug-trends study released Thursday …
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