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News: February 14, 2012
Global Study Finds Drug Abuse Highest in Richer Nations
FRIDAY, Jan. 6 (HealthDay News) -- About 200 million people worldwide use illicit drugs each year, and use is highest in wealthier nations, a new study shows. The researchers also found that the burden of health problems caused by illicit drug use...
Drug Abuse Treatment Rates on the Rise: U.S. Report
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Admissions for alcohol abuse treatment have remained the same in parts of the Midwest and South while dropping elsewhere in the United States, while treatment rates for illegal drugs are increasing across the...
U.S. Campaign Aims to Combat Prescription Drug Abuse
SATURDAY, Oct. 9 (HealthDay News) -- In a nationwide campaign to prevent prescription drug abuse, accidental poisonings and overdoses, a coalition of U.S. medical, drug and law enforcement agencies is calling on consumers to routinely dispose of a...
Prescription Drug Abuse Sending More to Hospitals
TUESDAY, April 6 (HealthDay News) -- Hospitalizations caused by accidental and intentional abuse of prescription sedatives, tranquilizers and other painkilling drugs has risen dramatically over the last decade, new research reveals. Hospital stays...
In U.S., Prescription Drug Abuse Is Growing
TUESDAY, Dec. 29 (HealthDay News) -- The overdose death of pop star Michael Jackson in 2009 drew new attention to the abuse of prescription drugs in the United States. And with that attention has come acknowledgment that it's become a widespread p...
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