National Voice on Drug Abuse Retiring From Minn.

National voice on drug abuse retiring from Minn.
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Carol Falkowski, a drug abuse expert whose understanding of addiction has made her one of the nation's most respected voices in the field, is retiring from state government, the Minnesota Department of Human Services announced Thursday.
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Research and Markets: Substance Abuse Therapeutics Market to 2018 – Effective Drug Therapies in the Treatment of …
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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Substance Abuse Therapeutics Market to 2018 – Effecti
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Drug Abuse Among Seniors
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The problem of older adults abusing prescription and illicit drugs hasn’t gotten enough attention, says Dr. Gaya Dowling, acting chief of science policy branch at NIDA (National Institute on Drug Abuse). “When we think of drug abuse, we think of young people,” says Dowling.
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OPIATE OVERDOSE | RESPONSE TRAINING VIDEO | NARCAN – Drug Take Back Initiative: Prescription drug abuse and addiction is rising at a staggering rate. The majority of prescription medication used to fuel addiction comes from the medicine cabinets of family members and friends. District Attorney Morrissey developed a county-wide program to educate residents of the responsibility of safely storing and disposing of medication. Now residents can dispose of their prescription medication at a drug take-back box located in police stations across the county. This partnership with police and local health officials has resulted in significant collection and destruction of prescription medication. There are presently 25 communities in Norfolk County that have a safe prescription drug disposal unit available at their police station. This unit is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week for residents to drop off unused medication with no questions asked. More than half of young opiate users took their first pain pill straight out of the medicine cabinet of their family or that of a friend’s family. It is urgent that residents get the prescription drugs they no longer need out of their homes and dispose of them safely. Opiate use destroys individual lives, damages the family and friends around the addict, and drives much of the property crime and robberies we see in our communities. With the FDA long recommending against flushing unused drugs down the toilet, to keep them from filtering into groundwater supplies, these drug …

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