Fighting Heroin: Parents Can Help Prevent Drug Addiction

Published July 14, 2012

Fighting heroin: Parents can help prevent drug addiction
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
When parents, counselors and law enforcement consider what it takes to keep kids off heroin – or any drug for that matter – parents are always listed as a priority.
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Increased prescription drug abuse triggers rise in heroin addiction
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
Increased prescription drug abuse across the nation is having a surprising effect on other drug use — including causing a rise in heroin addiction among youth, who begin with prescription drugs and then switch to heroin.
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Anti-drug abuse measure drives many addicts to heroin
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
In the record book of unintended consequences, this one's sure to be a groan-worthy entry: A frightening rise in addiction to the drug OxyContin prompts a reformulation that makes the prescription pain medication harder to abuse. So addicts switch to heroin instead.
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