Prescription Drug Abuse: Educating Pharmacists, Teens and Patients

Prescription Drug Abuse: Educating Pharmacists, Teens and Patients – “Prescription Drug Abuse: Educating Pharmacists, Teens and Patients” Jessica Mysyk, 2012 Pharmacy Internship Program, analyzed survey data that asked healthc…

Pro Marijuana ad airing at NASCAR Brickyard 400 (video)

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Before they led Save Our Society from Drugs, and its sister nonprofit, the Drug Free America Foundation, the Semblers were at the helm of STRAIGHT, Inc., which operated drug abuse treatment centers, mostly for teenagers, from 1976 through 1993. … The …
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Ask a Trooper: Marijuana Facts

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Marijuana is known accurately as a gateway drug. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), more teens were in treatment for marijuana than for all other illicit drugs combined in 2006. Fact: According to the …
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Empty desks: Suicide's touch infiltrates school

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Did he hang himself? Was it a drug overdose? Things were made worse by guessing — especially when some had the facts, Livingston said. It would be two days before anyone knew the truth, when Antonio's father, Jonathan Franco, took the stage at …
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