Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana

Published January 28, 2014

Let's Not Kid Ourselves About Marijuana

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

At the substance-abuse programs of Phoenix House, and at similar programs across the country, marijuana is the primary drug of abuse for close to 70% of teens in treatment. No one can say how marijuana legalization will play out. A perception of legal …
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Controversy plagues school mental health screening

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

Teachers in one South Florida school district screen children as young as kindergarten by filling out a short questionnaire, while students in Minnesota answer anonymous surveys about drug use and depression. In Olympia, Wash., 21,000 students were …
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Krokodil may be next big killer

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

The drug also can lead to brain damage, speech impediments, poor motor skills, pneumonia, burst blood vessels in the heart and meningitis. The first two known cases of Krokodil use in the U.S. were documented by a poison control center in Phoenix in …
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Maryland Lists VERY Wrong Helpline Phone Number On Health Exchange …

Filed under: Drug Abuse Phoenix

Critics said Saturday that the latest problem to hit Maryland's online health exchange — an incorrect help-line number that directed hundreds of callers to a Seattle-based pottery business — was another symptom of the poorly operating website. "You …
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