Teenage Substance Abuse: CVS Caremark Gets Socially Responsible on Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse

CVS Caremark Gets Socially Responsible on Teenage Prescription Drug Abuse
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What adds a level of danger to the teen legal drug abuse problem is the fact that it is available at home. This is at the core of the Drugfree.org campaign that CVS Caremark is sponsoring. The goal is to prevent half a million teens from abusing …
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Teen drug dealer Tyler Pagenstecher faces sentencing for role in Ohio drug ring
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18, but a judge agreed to postpone it so the teen could finish a substance-abuse program that required three meetings a week and regular drug screenings. Friends and neighbors have described Pagenstecher as a seemingly typical teenager who liked to …
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Teens responsible for much prescription drug abuse
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According to a new study, the teen in your household might be a prescription drug abuser. Researchers affiliated with the University of Colorado Denver published these unfortunate findings online on October 16 in the Journal of Adolescent medicine.
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More than 40 percent of all children in US now born out of wedlock
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According to the U.S. department of Health and Human Services, fatherless children are at a dramatically greater risk of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, suicide, poor educational performance, teen pregnancy and criminality. Email. Print …
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