Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated as Illness

Russell Brand Tells MPs Drug Addiction Should Be Treated As Illness – Comedian Russell Brand has told MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee addiction should be treated as an illness instead of a crime. The 36-year-old who sa…

Herion Use On The Rise Again

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The new profile of a heroin user in the United States is a white male in his 30s, according to statistics from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. It's extremely likely that a heroin user started his or her drug use in their teenage years. The …
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Drug disposal program continues at Highland Park Police Department

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The Foundation was created to educate the public about the dangers and consequences of prescription drug abuse and addiction, and to provide tangible methods to remove unwanted and unused medications from homes. The use of prescription pills for non …
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What is there to light up about? (Pt II)

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The first is the World Health Organization's statistics on tobacco. Incidentally, he failed to indicate where the data was collected from to inform that study. The second is the 2012 Global Youth Tobacco Survey undertaken by the National Council on …
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