Mental disorders can trigger drug abuse
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TRENTON — President Barack Obama at the beginning of this month issued a presidential proclamation establishing October 2012 as National Substance Abuse Prevention Month. Mental disorders such as schizophrenia, which can trigger bizarre behavior …
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Addiction is a brain disease
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Alcoholism, chemical dependency or drug addiction are all terms for the same illness. It has many different manifestations. What many see as voluntary actions by the affected individual are actually the result of a compulsion to use or drink that is …
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New Jersey, Pennsylvania prescription drug monitoring programs target abuse …
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Authorities are seeing an increase in a particular exchange: a slip of paper for a fix without an injection, a high without the grit. Often at the root of this mentality is a false correlation between legality and safety, but new programs target …
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Chris Evert tournament raises money to fight drug abuse
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Chris Evert tournament raises money to fight drug abuse. October 25, 2012|By Maria Herrera, Sun Sentinel. It's not a popular or glitzy cause: Drug abuse and addiction carries a stigma with which most people don't want to be associated. Not for Chris Evert.
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