Vermont Faces Opiate Drug Abuse Crisis

Vermont faces opiate drug abuse crisis
Montagne has been through rehab five times. About 4,000 Vermonters are in drug treatment for opiates, such as Oxycontin and heroin. Since the year 2000, Vermont has seen nearly an 800 percent increase in opiate drug abuse. “It’s an illness we need to treat …
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Drug abuse screening bill OK’d by Indiana House
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A contentious bill to screen welfare recipients for drug abuse and limit residents to buy only … what can be bought through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps. Recipients only would be …
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Legalisation helped halve all drug abuse
In response to Marie O’Connor (Letters’ January 27) I am compelled to share with you a few facts I have come across concerning cannabis. Portugal decriminalised all drugs 12 years ago, not just cannabis, all drugs, and the result was that drug abuse has …
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