Easy to Use Resource for Canada’s Substance Abuse Workforce

Published December 27, 2013

Easy to Use Resource for Canada’s Substance Abuse Workforce – Testimonials describing the practical, easy to use and adaptable aspects of the CCSA Competencies for the Canadian Substance abuse workforce. http://www.ccsa.ca.

Program targets heroin abuse

Filed under: drug addiction statistics

Monica Johnson, coordinator for the Charlotte Mecklenburg Drug Free Coalition, said police have told her organization that hydrocodone pills may sell for $ 7 to $ 10 per pill. … The statistics are outrageous as far as failure rate of getting off of …
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'Typical' heroin user in Connecticut is white, male, suburban; often unaware …

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The report also found that, in Connecticut, deaths from overdoses — a majority of which were from prescription drugs — increased by 12 percent since 1999, when the rate was 9 per 100,000. Torrington this year has a rate of death from heroin overdoses …
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