Physician Focus: Youth and Substance Abuse

Published August 8, 2012

Physician Focus: Youth and Substance Abuse

Filed under: Drug Abuse Maryland

John R. Knight, M.D.. Motor vehicle crashes, unintentional injuries, homicides, and suicides account for more than 70 percent of all teenage deaths, and all of them are strongly linked to one thing: substance abuse. Substance abuse by adolescents is a …
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AP-GfK poll: Almost all Russians see drug abuse as a top problem as Afghan …

Filed under: Drug Abuse Maryland

FOR STORY POLL DRUG ABUSE IN RUSSIA – This photo dated Thursday, July 5, 2012, showing Nikolai Leonov, a 36-year old resident of a southeastern Moscow suburb, walks with his daughter near the spot where just days earlier the two-year-old found a …
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AAGP Lauds Release of New IOM Study Calling for Changes to Meet the Needs …

Filed under: Drug Abuse Maryland

BETHESDA, Md., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — This week, the Institute of Medicine released a report outlining the mental health and substance use workforce needs for the growing population of older adults in the United States. The American …
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