Prescription Drug Abuse: A Healthy Kids Series

Published November 7, 2012

Prescription Drug Abuse: A Healthy Kids Series

Filed under: What Is Drug Abuse and Addiction

During October and November, the Healthy Kids blog will look at this issue through the stories of former teen prescription drug users now in recovery, their parents and local addiction-recovery experts working to treat addicted teens and help parents …
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How the once-a-year flutter becomes a problem

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GAMBLING addiction is like drug abuse: If you can't get the hit you're after, you''ll try to get the buzz elsewhere. So says gambling expert Associate Professor Matthew Rockloff, who warns that we may be focusing so hard on the pokies that we're …
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• Local student substance abuse higher than averages

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Tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, prescription drug abuse and binge drinking were all higher in the 2012 Indiana Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Use Drug survey of Morgan County middle school and high school students than state and national averages. The issues …
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