Drug News

METHADONE – USA
High Dosage Methadone Users Can Now Utilize Medical Detox – PR Web

Novus Medical Detox Center announced this week that they have successfully detoxed a number of patients that had been taking high daily doses of methadone–something few other medical detox facilities will even attempt.

METHADONE – USA
Methadone Abuse Continues – Trans World News

Narconon Drug Rehab in Georgia warns that methadone abuse continues despite evidence that methadone misuse can cause death.

PAINKILLER – USA
Painkiller abuse treatment done in a very exclusive & loving environment – Trans World News

Painkiller abuse is different than alcohol abuse is different than cocaine abuse, and so perhaps it should go without saying that painkiller treatment and alcohol treatment and cocaine treatment must all proceed along distinct tracks.

PAINKILLER – USA
Officials urge action on painkiller abuse – Las Vegas Sun

State legislators and regulators Monday called the Sun’s reports about the startling rise in the use of narcotic painkillers in Nevada a wake-up call to improve patient care in the state.

ADDICTION – MALAYSIAN
Drug Addiction, A Chronic Brain Disease – Bernama

The number of drug addicts is anticipated to double by 2015 from the current 270,000 and the figure indicates addiction to drugs is more than a social or behavioural problem.

ADDICTION – CANADA
America’s Top Drug and Alcohol Rehab offers Soma Addiction Treatment – FPRC

Like other prescription drugs, the abuse of Soma is associated with tolerance, dependence and addiction. The signs and symptoms have no fundamental difference from those that can be found accompanying the abuse of other prescription medications with tranquilizer or sedative effects.

ALCOHOL – USA
Town Hall meeting set to discuss alcohol abuse – Jackson County Chronicle

Dinking rates continue to rise in our community for adults and children. Deaths continue to rise in our county due to drunk driving either being a passenger, driver, bystander or occupant. Intervention and prevention are tools that the community can use to prevent these articles from re-appearing.

ALCOHOL – USA
Campus Alcohol Abuse – KFYR TV News

For many young people, college is their first taste of freedom. And that freedom often involves alcohol. North Dakota leads the country when it comes to underage drinking. Recent survey results show fewer students are drinking alcohol than in years past, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t more work to do.

PAINKILLER – USA
TRACKING NEVADANS’ APPETITE FOR PAINKILLERS – Las Vegas Sun

The Sun discovered the startling increase in the number of narcotic painkillers consumed in Nevada after analyzing several thousand pages of Drug Enforcement Administration reports on the production and distribution of controlled substances to pharmacies and health care practitioners in the United States.