Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual

Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal …
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Top Astros prospect chronicles drug abuse
And for the first time publicly, he's opening up about his battle with an addiction to marijuana and monthlong stay at a rehabilitation center. “At this point it's pretty evident to me that I'm a drug addict,” he told The Associated Press over …
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Ashland gets 5K to fight substance abuse among young people
“Research shows that prevention is the most effective tool we have to reduce the terrible consequences associated with drug abuse among young people," said coalition co-director Ann Turncliff. "This new funding will allow our coalition to help place …
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Video contest for high school, middle school students to fight drug use
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, WI (WHBL) – A two-pronged effort to raise awareness among high schoolers and middle schoolers in Sheboygan County about addictions and drugs gets underway Friday. Captain Jim Veeser of the Sheboygan Police Department …
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