Teen Drug and Alcohol Abuse Part 1

Teen Drug and Alcohol Abuse Part 1 – The truth about teen drug and alcohol abuse. In depth details about why teens use them, the effects and how they can get help.

Tyler's Light will battle drug abuse from new local home

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Wilson said the office also hosts weekly 12-step meetings for people in active recovery, coping with the effects of drug addiction. "The third use is for bi-monthly board meetings," Wilson said. "Meeting space is tough to get in our community and this …
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'Digging an early grave'

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“There would be certain times when you'd go two or three days and you couldn't get anything,” he recalled. “Your body starts hurting, you get the sweats, tremors — everything. And then you start thinking, maybe it's not just recreational. Maybe I am …
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An Effort to Expand Access to a Drug That Could Save Victims of Overdoses

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… just by her daughter's tumble into addiction, but also by the circumstances of her death. She wonders if her life might have been saved if the emergency workers who treated her had been armed with naloxone, a powerful drug that can reverse the …
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