 Newport,Pennsylvania Township police arrest three after discovering meth lab.
Newport,Pennsylvania Township police have arrested three people on drug charges following the discovery of a ...
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Utah state officials propose drug-testing in workplace.
SALT LAKE CITY,Utah -- A proposed drug-testing program for state employees would be narrowly focused ...
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Major police operation ends in drugs haul.
Police in Medway,England believe they have effectively taken out a suspected major drugs network.
The ...
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Conference focuses on link between diversity and drug abuse
Acting as a seeming counterbalance to the notorious debauchery of Spring Break, today's Seventh Annual ...
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The fight against drug addiction
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino has introduced a program that would fund acupuncture detoxification and prescription ...
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Police arrest ex-Heartland doctor on drug charge
A former Heartland Regional Medical Center doctor was arrested late Tuesday for possessing a drug ...
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Woman sentenced for helping drug ring
The former co-owner of a nonprofit company that helped Hawai'i residents resolve their credit problems ...
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Their child was abducted - by drug addiction
A father walks into his son's room. He looks around at the stuff teen-age boys ...
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Drugs Cocaine
Sat, 03/15/03
Cocaine is now top street drug
by Claire Connolly Doyle
DRUG squad members ...
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Teaching the dangers of drug addiction
It's not always easy for parents to admit they need to learn more about illegal ...
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Concerned parents look at drug abuse
About 60 parents got an eye-opening education Tuesday on what their kids might be doing ...
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Social circumstances are important in drug abuse. Peer pressure, emotional distress and low self-esteem can all lead individuals to abuse drugs. Ease of access to drugs is another influence.
Alcohol is involved in 50% of all driving fatalities.
The Federal Drug Enforcement Administration announced in April that OxyContin may have played a role in 464 deaths across the Country in 2000 to 2001.
Alcohol, in combonation with another substance was the most abused mood-altering substance in the year 2000.
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Methadone
Addiction 
In blind trials, users who were given both drugs orally were unable to distinguish between the effects heroin and methadone. An added problem for those using methadone to recover from heroin addiction is withdrawal. Withdrawal from heroin should be over after seven to ten days. Withdrawal from methadone though, can take up to a month or even longer.
Ironically, methadone used to control narcotic addiction is frequently encountered on the illicit market and has been associated with a number of overdose deaths. Tolerance and addiction to methadone is a dangerous threat, as withdrawal results from the cessation of use. Many former heroin users have claimed that the horrors of heroin withdrawal were far less painful and difficult than withdrawal from methadone.
Many people go from being addicted to heroin to being addicted to methadone,
and continue with this "treatment" for years. They fear the withdrawal that
will occur when they stop. Methadone does not have to be the way of life for
former heroin addicts. Gradual cessation followed by a drug-free program of
rehabilitation may be the answer for many sufferers.
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