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How to Keep Your Teen Safe from Prescription Painkillers

Today, one of the biggest risks facing teens is the prescription painkillers sitting in medicine cabinets in most American households. Most teens

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Recognizing the Risk Factors for Addiction

Addiction is a personal human struggle as old as time. In its latest iteration, addiction has resurfaced at crisis levels. Clinically, addiction

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Women More Likely to Get Addicted to Cocaine

Addiction is a behavioral disease that affects people all around the world, regardless of demographics like class, race, or gender. However, it wo

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Rising Addiction Rates in Afghanistan

While addiction is a prominent problem in the United States, it’s important to recognize that it is something that goes far beyond our borders,

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Naloxone Prices Have Skyrocketed

In the world of addiction recovery, there are many different tools that we have available to us to help people who are struggling with addiction.

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HBO Documentary Examines Risky Drinking

For many people in America, binge drinking has become a core part of their social lives. This has created a culture that, in many cases, excuses dange

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Funding to Fight Opioid Abuse

Drug abuse, and particularly opioid addiction, has skyrocketed over the past decade. Based on current models that rightly view addiction as a ment

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Does Alcohol Cause Cancer?

Obviously, engaging in heavy drinking doesn’t do any favors for your health. However, over drinking can cause a lot more damage than you think i

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Young People, Marijuana, and Brain Damage

Marijuana is a drug that has gained immense popularity in recent years, although it has always been prevalent in American society. The main difference

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Prescription Opioids and Our Epidemic Part 2

PART 2 Note: All numbers are cited from the Center for Disease Control. We are currently in the midst of a large national problem. If one prescr

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