Prescription Drug Abuse & Addiction: TakePart Live With Jacob Soboroff & Cara Santa Maria

Prescription Drug Abuse & Addiction: TakePart Live with Jacob Soboroff & Cara Santa Maria – Jacob Soboroff, Cara Santa Maria, Behind the Orange Curtain producer Natalie Costa, actor Mason Pryor and Dr. Matthew Torrington discuss prescription opioid …

Prescription drug abuse 'enormous'

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According to statistics from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the non-medical use of prescription pain relievers was the highest among Utahns ages 18 to 25 in 2010 and 2011, the most recent years for which statistics were available. The age …
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Episode 391: The Anti-Addiction Pill That's Big Business For Drug Dealers

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There's a pill called Suboxone that treats addiction to heroin and pain pills like oxycontin. Doctors and addicts say it's amazing. "It was the best thing that ever happened," one heroin addict told us. "I was like OH. MY. LORD. This is a miracle pill.".
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Drug addiction leads to three-year prison sentence

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He wasn't so much running away from the home, however, as he was from the abuse he suffered there. Once on the streets, it wasn't long before he was using, and ultimately abusing, drugs. For 20 years he struggled with addictions to cocaine, heroin …
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Series of talks tackle drug addiction

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What you should know: Representatives from the Marathon County Alcohol and Other Drugs Partnership will discuss how the entire community needs to play a part in tackling the growing epidemic of drug use in the area. This program is part of the Pushback …
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