Watson: Treating Drug Addiction Needs Less Stigma

Watson: Treating drug addiction needs less stigma
An estimated 15 percent of high school seniors have tried prescription drugs (for fun) within the past year. As the availability of opioid prescriptions has become more restricted — a deliberate crackdown — and the street price of those drugs has …
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Graphic images show impact of drug addiction over time
Graphic anti-smoking ads have proven effective for discouraging smoking. Now, an antidrug campaign produced by the Web site Rehabs.com is presenting graphic ads that illustrate the rapid downward transformation of drug abusers over time. The multimedia …
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2 drug addiction prevention groups to hold forums Tuesday
Two drug awareness and addiction prevention organizations, one of them newly formed, will host forums on Tuesday. The new group, Dutchess Addiction Awareness, Prevention and Support, or Dutchess AAPS, will hold its forum at 7 p.m. at Lagrange …
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Inside Rehab: What it’s like to overcome a drug addiction (The Feed) — Rehab is one of the toughest parts of beating an addiction where addicts are forced to quit in one day. The Feed’s Andy Park goes inside a rehab clinic to se…

Watson: Treating drug addiction needs less stigma
Recently, a cluster of heroin overdoses and deaths on the South Shore of Massachusetts captured public attention and focused both citizens and local and state officials on the issues of drug use, prevention and treatment. Since 1996, when opiate-based …
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My mother, the drug addict
When she came clean to me that night about her drug abuse, she didn't apologize or show any sorrow over her vicious mood swings, of which I was the sole witness and scapegoat. Instead, she disavowed the junkie she was as though it were a separate …
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