national institute on drug abuse

Medications to Combat Drug Addiction

Medications to combat drug addiction

Filed under: drug addiction help centers

Three types of medication – two of them considered major advances in addiction treatment – may complement the behavioral therapies and support programs that help addicts. They are: Methadone, which binds to opiate receptors in the brain, mimicking the …
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Better game plan needed for addiction treatment

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Prescription Drug Abuse Concerns School Police

Prescription Drug Abuse Concerns School Police

Filed under: drug abuse

LAS VEGAS — Clark County schools are working to fight the growing national problem of prescription drug abuse. School police say they've seen kids suffering bad reactions from taking drugs they were never prescribed. Traditionally, law enforcement …
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Letters: drug abuse, Mount Soledad, Prince Harry

Filed under: drug abuse

I feel the letter from Pam Slater-Price and Bonnie Dumanis misses the point regarding drug abuse (“Stepping up the fight against prescription drug abuse,” Opinion, Aug. 24). We have thrown away a lot of money on the war on drugs. We have thrown away a …
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Drug and Alcohol Addiction

Does It Make More Sense to Put CHEMICALLY ADDICTED People in PRISON for POSSESSION or in REHAB?

Question by Bush is not conservative: Does it make more sense to put CHEMICALLY ADDICTED people in PRISON for POSSESSION or in REHAB?
Addiction is an illness. Narcotics abuse is an illness. Logically, the purchasing, possession and abuse of a drug by an addict is as much of a health concern as it is a legal one.

Narcotics abuse is undoubtedly a more emotionally complicated crime than other nonviolent offenses such as theft and vandalism, but early attempts to curb abuse lacked the necessary breadth to get addicts clean. Incarceration is not an effective method of freeing drug users from the substances on which they depend.

Best Way to Keep My Kid From Doing Drugs.?

Question by Aaron B: Best way to keep my kid from doing drugs.?
Hi,
I am having my first child very soon, he can come any day now and I’m scrambling around frantic worrying about doing everything right. One concern that I just can’t seem to shake from my mind is drug use, quite a few people in my family have had issue’s with drugs and alcohol, myself included, I have been sober now for over a year and will never go down that road again, but now I’m terrified that the gene or whatever it is that drives members of my family into these addictions is going to get passed on to my son. My wife does not have this addictive personality and there is really only one member of her immediate family that has had any issues with addiction, so I hope that helps me tip the scales.

Do NFL Fans Have a Stronger Liking for Teams Not in Their Teams Conference?

Question by : Do NFL fans have a stronger liking for teams not in their teams conference?
Example… I’m a Dolphin fan, and I love my Dolphins plus alot of teams in the NFC…
Giants, 49ers, Packers, Lions, Cowboy, etc.

but I can’t stand… Steelers, Patriots, Jets, etc.

Do fans in the NFC feel the same way, and vice versa?