Prescription Drug abuse – addiction / Recovery Process

Published November 22, 2012

Prescription Drug abuse – addiction / Recovery Process – Recovery Day 6

Minnesota agencies focus aim on substance abuse

Filed under: abuse addiction

Substance abuse and addiction inflict a devastating human and financial toll on Minnesota. At the Departments of Health, Public Safety and Human Services, we are confronted daily with the illness, crime and damage to families that too often follow drug …
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Former Patriot shares story of addiction

Filed under: abuse addiction

Already tormented by his anxiety and burgeoning substance abuse, Sullivan proceeded to fall into a downward spiral of alcoholism and addiction, an 8-year struggle that would land him in jail, emergency rooms and very nearly an early grave. Now sober …
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Some south communities picking up the pace in battle against opiate abuse

Filed under: abuse addiction

Contrary to the national pattern, more adults in Massachusetts entered substance abuse treatment for addiction to heroin than alcohol, 39,212 compared to 38,305, the report stated, drawing on figures for 2011 from the Massachusetts Department of Public …
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