Prescription Drug Abuse

Published January 26, 2014

Prescription Drug Abuse — This video shows the statistics showing the rapid increase of prescription drug abuse among teenagers today. I made this video as part of my health project f…

Va. lawmakers target dope addicts on welfare
For example, both reckon that welfare recipents use illegal drugs at the roughly same rate of the non-welfare population. But the state of Florida, when it implemented an experimental drug testing program for welfare recipients in 2011 and 2012, found …
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Times In-Depth: Heroin's deadly return to Erie
In 2012, 335,000 Americans reported using heroin in the past month, according to the most recent National Survey on Drug Use and Health, by the federal Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, part of the U.S. Health Department. That …
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