Young LI heroin addicts in treatment more than doubles

Newsday (subscription)

The number of young Long Islanders in treatment for heroin addiction more than doubled from 2007 to 2009, flooding rehabilitation centers with thousands of ...

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British taxpayers pay 44 million pounds a year funding drug-addicts

Oneindia

London, June 1 (ANI): British taxpayers are paying 44 million pounds a year to fund the drug habits of jailed addicts. The alarmingly high figures were ...

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Addiction 'recovery' charity opens

The Press Association

A national charity aimed at helping addicts get off drugs has been launched by Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing. The Scottish Drug Recovery Consortium ...

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Drug treatment not yet a focus of task force

Zanesville Times Recorder

Many of those recommendations were adopted, some nearly verbatim, by the task force, but none that dealt solely with addiction treatment. ...

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Dr. Drew in Denial That "Celebrity Rehab" Has a Problem

NBC Washington (blog)

But hours later, host and addiction buster Dr. Drew Pinsky took to Twitter to assure fans the show would go on. "I am not involved at all with the casting ...

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Tackling the Difficult Problem of Prescription Opioid Misuse

Annals of Internal Medicine

To paraphrase Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart (6), although drug misuse and addiction are difficult to define, we all assume that we will know them ...

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