drug detox
drug detox
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by Rod MacTaggart - 2007-12-14
In the western Canadian province of Alberta, parents of kids with drug problems can ask a judge to order the kids into special, lock-up alcohol and drug detox centers for up to five days. The ho...
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by Gloria MacTaggart - 2007-12-17
Do you want to lower your health care costs? Getting off prescription medications that aren't really needed may do just that. An added benefit could be that you also avoid being one of the 1.5 m...
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by Rod - 2008-04-21
The early-90s movie Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, graphically depicted how drug addiction can be forced on someone against their will. Just like Gene Hackman's tough Detective Jimmy "Popeye" D...
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by Rod - 2008-05-17
Can you imagine an 11-year-old 5th-grader needing drug detox for Xanax -- or any drug? As appalling as the concept may seem, news reports across the country reveal that prescription drug abuse in midd...
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by Rod - 2008-06-03
Although it is widely accepted that taking opioid pain killers over extended periods of time can lead to "tolerance" -- needing more opioids to get the same pain relief -- there is a wealth of recent ...
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by Rod - 2008-06-15
According to an Army estimate, some 20,000 or more troops in the Middle East -- nearly 30 percent of the total -- are taking prescription antidepressants and sleeping pills to help them "cope" with th...
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by Rod - 2008-07-01
The latest analysis from the University of Mississippi's Potency Monitoring Project reveals most marijuana on the market today has twice as much THC -- the psychoactive ingredient -- as when testing b...
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by Rod - 2008-07-12
On August 18, 2006, only eighteen years old and three days away from her first day in college, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon thereafter died. Emily is only one of hundred...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-07-15
A panel of addiction experts say Nevada's skyrocketing abuse of prescription narcotics -- the highest in the nation -- is caused by doctors who don't take the time to examine a patient's history ...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-07-15
Eighty-five percent of the 365 web sites selling highly addictive and dangerous controlled substances require no prescription, according to a study just released by Columbia University researchers...