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The Problem With Pot: Legalization, Growing Acceptance Increase Risk of Abuse

The Problem With Pot: Legalization, Growing Acceptance Increase Risk of Abuse

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For Carpentieri, marijuana proved to be a gateway drug to more addictive substances, from alcohol to cocaine. Along with his user friends, he mixed … Eventually he wound up hooked on crack cocaine for 13 years. Carpentieri's plight is typical … Read more on Charisma News

 


Narconon Fresh Start – Nola Part 1 – Crack Addiction Overcome! – Part 1: Nola’s son was addicted to crack cocaine. She sent him to a Narconon Fresh Start Drug Rehabiliation Center and he turned his life around.

Report: JR Smith Suspended for Violating Substance Abuse Policy

Report: JR Smith suspended for violating substance abuse policy

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It's been a rough offseason for J.R. Smith, despite signing a three-year, $ 17.9 million contract (third year is a player option). After re-signing with the New York Knicks, Smith had surgery on his left knee and repaired a tear in his lateral meniscus … Read more on CBSSports.com

 


Guilty plea in RI sports doping case – A Chinese company and its chief executive have agreed to plead guilty to federal charges of illegally selling human growth hormone and will pay a total .5 …

Head of National Institute on Drug Abuse Is Nominated for Civil Service Award

Head of National Institute on Drug Abuse is nominated for civil service award

Filed under: articles on drug abuse

For 10 years, Nora Volkow has been the director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, overseeing a budget of nearly $ 1 billion and much of the world's research on one of medicine's most controversial subjects. It isn't surprising that she has her … Read more on Washington Post

 

Prescription drug abuse is on the rise

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Recovery Center Source of Personal Pride for Gay President

Recovery center source of personal pride for gay president

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New Hope specializes in emotional, physical and spiritual healing, driven to create an extraordinary life of productive, balanced sober living. … Transgender individuals often are addicted to street drugs such as heroin, crack cocaine and meth, he said. Read more on Windy City Times

 

Teen who murdered Penn Hills girl gets a minimum 60 years in prison

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Teen Drug Abuse


Teen Drug Abuse

 

Lamar Odom & NBA Drug Counselors Had Secret Meeting Before DUI Arrest

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

Lamar reportedly agreed to meet with two drug counselors, former NBA players Dirk Minniefield and Cliff Robinson, after they reached out to him, according to a new report from TMZ. Cliff and Dirk, who both battled substance abuse issues during their … Read more on Hollywood Life

 

How To Prevent 16000 U.S. Deaths This Year

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Anyone Know Exactly How Abusing Alcohol Shuts Down Your Liver?

Question by lol ok: Anyone know exactly how abusing alcohol shuts down your liver?
I have to do a project on the liver, and I know that drinking too much alcohol can harm it. Anyone know exactly what happens?

Best answer:

Answer by nochocolate
Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease

What is the liver’s role in processing alcohol?

The liver breaks down alcohol so it can be eliminated from your body. If you consume more alcohol than the liver can process, the resulting imbalance can injure the liver by interfering with its normal breakdown of protein, fats, and carbohydrates.

Amphetamines Project…?

Question by : amphetamines project…?
i need to know the following things for my project please…

<1> Is it a depressant or stimulant?
<2> How is it used (smoked injested snorted or swallowed)?
<3> Is the drug recreational, street, or an over the counter drug? is it one, some or all of these?
<4> What effect do drugs in general have on the brain cells?
<5> How can this drug physically harm you or others?
<6> How addictive is this drug?
<7> What will happen if you overdose?
<8> What are the financial costs? (How much for a joint, pill. ram etc.)
<9> What are the social risks?
<10> Can addicts get help if so where?

I Am Thinking About Starting Cocaine…?

Question by Gary Sheppard: i am thinking about starting cocaine…?
many people are using cocaine and i think i want to start doing it as well.

i never did drugs in my life but i feel like starting cocaine now.

i am curious to know exactly why this particular for of drug is so good and makes people want more?

exactly what does it do to you.

i will not use the cheap form, the good one, not crack.

i plan to snort it with my nose. i can afford it, money is not really an issue.

NCSO Makes Arrest in Narcotics Investigation

NCSO makes arrest in narcotics investigation

Filed under: Dangers Of Crack Cocaine

Brice was charged with disregarding a stop sign, failure to stop for blue light and siren, driving under suspension, reckless driving, possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine base (crack cocaine), manufacturing marijuana, and possession of a … Read more on Heraldindependent

 

The History of America's Secret Wars: Corporate Espionage and the Outsourcing

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NYC Man Part of Family Crack Cocaine Business Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

NYC man part of family crack cocaine business sentenced to 7 years in prison

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He is one of more than a dozen people charged in connection with a crack cocaine distribution ring that primarily operated out of adjacent Ohio Street apartments. In January, he … 4, 2011 under the name the Beer Factory Corp., according to court … Read more on Bangor Daily News

 

A soul survivor's act of bravery – WA Today

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