The world's most comprehensive legalized heroin program became permanent Sunday with overwhelming approval from Swiss voters who simultaneously rejected the decriminalization of marijuana. The heroin program, started in 1994, is offered in 23 centers ...
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Vermont health and law enforcement officials are scrambling to confront a problem of prescription drug abuse in the state that, in some cases, has turned deadly. “Prescription drugs used to treat pain are very effective and important,” said ...
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WATERBURY, Vt.— Vermont officials plan to gather this week for a seminar on a growing problem in the state: the diversion and abuse of prescription drugs. State figures show that in the first nine months of 2008, 67 people died of overdoses of ...
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Students in at least four Onondaga County school districts have been caught distributing prescription drugs in their schools in the past two months, and local doctors and police believe that's just the tip of the iceberg. "This is so prevalent, it's ...
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Prescription drugs confiscated by the Clark County Coroner's Office are displayed. School police are warning that more students are abusing prescription drugs. Prescription drug abuse could be the next illicit drug menace for teens in the Las Vegas ...
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Some kids feel they are addicted to Xanax and were from the first moment they took it. This is not surprising as Xanax is very addictive – a person can become dependent on Xanax in just a few days. Others surveyed feel it would be difficult to stop ...
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A pioneering Swiss programme aimed to curb drug abuse by providing addicts with a clean, safe place to take heroin is expected to be made permanent by voters in a referendum on Sunday. The programme has been criticized by the United States and the U ...
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