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"Other Teens Drink And Use Marijuana But My Kids Don’t," Parents Say In New Poll

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

The latest C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital National Poll on Children’s Health from the University of Michigan finds that few parents (10 percent) believe their own teens, ages 13 to 17 years old, have used alcohol in the last year and even fewer (5 percent) believe their own teens have used marijuana in the last year…

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Lower Male Life Expectancy Mainly Caused By Smoking In Europe

Tuesday, January 18, 2011

In up to 60% of cases, females have been outliving males across Europe because of smoking, researchers revealed in the journal Tobacco Control. For the last couple of hundred years experts have been arguing about why women have been surviving for longer than men in Europe…

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Experts Report Big Rise In Enquiries About Recreational Drug Mephedrone In 2009-10, UK

Monday, October 4, 2010

The Health Protection Agency’s National Poisons Information Service (NPIS) has reported a large increase in enquiries related to the recreational drug mephedrone in 2009-10. There were 4,500 online and 292 telephone enquiries from health care professionals related to mephedrone in the last year – up from none in 2008/9…

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Alcoholic Liver Disease Is More Aggressive Than Other Chronic Liver Diseases

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Many diagnostic and treatment options have been developed for chronic liver disease during the last 40 years, yet their influence on survival remain unclear…

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NHS Lothian Warns On Legal High Drugs, Scotland

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

NHS Lothian is offering advice about the danger of ’so called’ legal highs following a significant rise in the number of patients attending Lothian hospitals with drug related symptoms in the last week…

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Fall In Heroin Deaths Obscures Importance Of Addiction Treatment

Saturday, July 10, 2010

A new study by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy shows deaths from heroin overdoses in Chicago’s Cook County fell 16 percent during the last decade, but the Chicago metropolitan region still ranks among the worst in the nation for heroin use. Kimberly Dennis, M.D…

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Fall In Heroin Deaths Obscures Importance Of Addiction Treatment

Saturday, July 10, 2010

A new study by Roosevelt University’s Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy shows deaths from heroin overdoses in Chicago’s Cook County fell 16 percent during the last decade, but the Chicago metropolitan region still ranks among the worst in the nation for heroin use. Kimberly Dennis, M.D…

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More Town Hall Meetings Than Ever Being Held Across America To Address The Dangers Of Underage Drinking

Friday, April 2, 2010

In recognition of Alcohol Awareness Month in April, communities throughout the nation are conducting town hall meetings to discuss what can be done to prevent and reduce underage drinking. This year more than 1,700 community-based organizations will conduct town hall meetings across the country up from 1,500 in 2008, the last time this national event took place…

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Fewer Women Entering Heroin Addiction Treatment – More Successfully Completing Treatment, England

Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Far fewer women are entering treatment for heroin addiction and more women are successfully completing treatment for drug dependency than ever before. A detailed study of statistics about women in treatment in England shows a 19 per cent fall in the number of adult females under 30 entering heroin programmes over the last five years – 1,000 fewer female addicts than in 2005…

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Toxicologist Warning To Parents: Look For Signs Of K2

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

In the last month, Anthony Scalzo, M.D., professor of toxicology at Saint Louis University, has seen nearly 30 cases involving teenagers who were experiencing hallucinations, severe agitation, elevated heart rate and blood pressure, vomiting and, in some cases, tremors and seizures. All of these teens had smoked a dangerous, yet legal substance known as K2 or “fake weed…

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