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Chart: New Mexico has the highest teen pregnancy rate
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… pregnanices occur through ignorance, even among teenagers. They know how to avoid it, but for a variety of reasons, family history, pressure from the boyfriend, desire for someone to love them, substance abuse, etc, they choose not to use …
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Teenage mental illness linked to alcohol, cannabis use
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Researchers collected information from more than 2000 people aged 12-30 who attended headspace youth mental health clinics, and found patterns of substance abuse become more commons as young teens grow, contributing to poor health. According to …
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Teenage Substance Abuse part 2

Keep dependency services public
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Addiction is not a public health issue? Yet NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse) references “Drug Abuse and Addiction: One of America's Most Challenging Public Health Problems.” Because the closing of a public agency affects our community, doesn't …
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Your Health with Dr. Stephanie: Task force takes aim at infant drug addiction
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It's a sad and tragic way to begin life, but far too many infants in Florida and Brevard County are born addicted to powerful narcotics like oxycodone and hydrocodone. Their addictions are passed down in the womb by their substance-abusing mothers.
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Danthony on substance addiction

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Boca doctor prescribed pills without examinations, deputies say
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Police say a Boca Raton doctor who specialized in addiction treatment prescribed pills to an undercover deputy at least eight times – without ever giving her an examination. James Cocores now stands charged with trafficking and unlawfully writing …
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More Casinos: More Problem Gamblers?
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Drumm lost control, lied to friends and family and embezzled money from his law firm to fund the addiction. He lost his job and his wife. … It's likely that stories like Drumm's will become more common at least initially, experts say, as the region's …
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Shattering Stereotypes
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When volunteers are chopping away in our bustling kitchen, they're working side-by-side with our current culinary students and paid staffers who are graduates of our program — many of whom came to us with long histories of incarceration, drug …
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Dark Wings owner still at large
Filed under: center for substance abuse treatment

Spice products are popular among young people; of the illicit drugs most used by high-school seniors, they are second only to marijuana, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. While there have been no scientific studies on the product's …
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Gateway Unites Medicine and Therapy to Treat Drug Addiction
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After seven years of heavy drug abuse, from marijuana and crystal meth to crack and heroin, and trouble with his relationships, work and the law, he turned to the Gateway Foundation Alcohol & Drug Treatment Center in Caseyville, IL, to help him put the …
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Psychiatrist Dana Castro, M.D. Joins David Lawrence Center
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Task force hopes to cut down mothers using prescription drugs and having a …
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With the rise of people abusing prescription drugs, Bondi told says they noticed that pregnant women were also using opiates fueling the rise in cases called Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome. That's when a newborn suffers from withdrawal and other symptoms …
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Weeding Through Marijuana Facts and Fiction
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The only authorized source of marijuana for research is grown at the University of Mississippi and is controlled by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which favors studying potential risks rather than benefits of cannabis. Cannabis' illegal status …
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Protesters explain the meaning of signs
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Lose the Stigma Dr Nora Volkow

Dr. Nora Volkow (b. 27 March 1956 Mexico) is director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). She is the great-granddaughter of Russian revolutionary leader and Head of the Fourth International, Leon Trotsky. Her father Esteban Volkov is the son of Leon Trotsky’s elder daughter.[1] Born in Mexico City, Volkow and her three sisters grew up in the house where Trotsky was killed.[1] She attended the Modern American School, then earned a medical degree from National University of Mexico before going to New York University for psychiatric residency. She chose a career in brain research after reading an article on the use of positron emission tomography in studying brain function. She did research at Brookhaven National Laboratory before becoming director of NIDA in 2003.[1] [edit]Research She has stated that her imaging studies of the brains of people addicted to drugs have helped to clarify the mechanisms of drug addiction. She also maintains that they have also helped to change the public’s view of drug addiction, from that of a moral violation or character flaw to an understanding that pathological changes to brain structure make it very difficult for addicts to give up their addictions.[1] Volkow says that she has shown that abnormalities in the prefrontal cortex of addicts create a feeling of need or craving that addicts know is irrational but cannot prevent. Prefrontal abnormalities also make it difficult to override compulsions to take drugs by exercising …    Read more...