Sen. Schumer Pushes Program to Battle Teen Drug Abuse

Published August 11, 2013

Sen. Schumer Pushes Program to Battle Teen Drug Abuse – JERICHO — New York State Senator Charles Schumer discussed a new program Monday to reduce dangerous prescription drug use among teens on the island. Speaking…

Counselor: 90% Of Our Teens Have Tried Spice

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Substance abuse counselors at The Bridge, Inc. are seeing more and more cases like his. In fact 90% of the teens being treated there have experimented with the drug. "A lot of our teenagers that we help say that they just wish their parents would talk …
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Heroin — it's cheap, easy to get and deadly

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Between 2004 and 2009, the number of people requiring emergency room help in this country for prescription drug abuse, including opiates, almost doubled, hitting 1.24 million people, according to Narconon International. As federal, state and county …
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Rocky ride for Rowhani

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Nonetheless, prostitution — estimated in 2000 by Tehran's Cultural Foundation as having risen by 635 percent among high school students since the late 1990s — continues unabated as more enter the sex trade in their early teens, according to Health …
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