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Question by ?: What substance would harm someone the most?
Between marijuana and alcohol, what would do the most long term damage? **PLEASE do not say both**

I don’t drink alcohol at all but i do regularly use marijuana. Sad thing is though, most of the older bunch that have been doing it in life never got too far (financially), and they’ve all kind of mentally lost it, but most are physically healthy and happy.

Opposed to the older bunch that drank most their life, are depressed and they look like they are not doing so well health wise either, but they seem to be much more successful than the marijuana crowd.
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Mexico's drug traffickers aid in consumer nation, increase in country's addicts
Filed under: substance abuse prevention

Faced with the increasing drug use and hoping to dampen the fallout of a bloody drug war, the federal government began betting on prevention and rehabilitation in 2007. The addictions survey, funded and executed by the health ministry, concludes …
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Boone liquor sales grow steadily
Filed under: substance abuse prevention

Holste, who has worked in the substance abuse prevention field, acknowledged the negative aspects of increased liquor sales. "We always know that alcohol sales increase when times are getting tough. That's a terrible time for it to increase," he said …
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Do Recession Babies Grow Up to Be Troubled Teens?
Filed under: substance abuse in the workplace

(Photo: Thinkstock)Kids born during the economic recessions of the 1980s had a higher chance of substance abuse and arrest as teenagers, a new study has found, leading researchers to wonder if babies born in recent years could face a similar fate. "The …
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Hudson Valley briefs: City woman sentenced to 16 years in robbery case, more
Filed under: substance abuse in the workplace

… attempted assault. Court officials said she stabbed her boyfriend in the upper leg during a fight. At the time she was sentenced to five years probation, ordered to attend anger management classes and be evaluated for mental illness and substance …
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Making Local Work TSS, Inc.
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Residents Asked to Complete Survey on Underage Drinking and Substance Abuse
Filed under: substance abuse prevention

The West Hartford Substance Abuse Prevention Commission, Town of West Hartford Department of Human and Leisure Services, West Hartford Community of Concern, Capital Area Substance Abuse Council and the Institute for Community Research are …
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Arkansas Lawmakers Urged to Consider Substance Abuse Treatment Measures
Filed under: substance abuse prevention

The Legislative Task Force on Substance Abuse Treatment Services and the Task Force on Substance Abuse and Prevention recently presented their annual reports which reveal that only 6 percent of Arkansans who need help with a drug addiction actually …
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Talk on Substance Abuse Prevention

Wellness Works President, Vincent Roman, speaks at the West Hartford Commission on Substance Abuse Prevention meeting.

 

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Kaufman: Mental health, drug abuse cuts are hurting community
Filed under: substance abuse treatments

Today, with demand for public mental health and substance abuse services extremely high, especially at a time of severe economic distress, the crisis in behavioral health care continues. The impacts are felt throughout society as people go without the …
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Controversy over parents treating severely autistic son with medical marijuana
Filed under: substance abuse treatments

Dr. Sharon Levy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Boston's Children's Hospital and chairwoman of the AAP's committee on substance abuse, told FOX 12 marijuana is toxic to children's developing brains. She also said enough isn't known about the …
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Economist study gives ammunition to alcohol treatment proponents
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My story on drug abuse. hopefully a message for teens.

Just my story on my experiences with drugs first hand and the people around me who were on them.

 

It's easy for lonely rats to get addicted
Filed under: teenage substance abuse

The kind of memory involved in addiction isn't conscious memory—it's an unconscious preference for the place in which you got the reward, says Leslie Whitaker, a researcher at the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “You keep coming back to it without …
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Marijuana prohibition an expensive failure
Filed under: teenage substance abuse

Mitchell Rosenthal, a psychiatrist who founded the substance-abuse treatment group Phoenix House, says there is “mounting evidence of the dangers it poses, especially to young users.” They might have a point if existing drug laws were keeping weed out …
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