Rationalization: Signs of Drug Use & Symptoms of Drug Use

Rationalization: Signs of Drug Use & Symptoms of Drug Use – www.testmyteen.com What do parents need to do to prevent drug experimentation, signs of drug use and symptoms of drug use in their teens? Home drug tests maybe?

Q&A: What Really Goes on In Drug Rehabs

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Last summer, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University released a report detailing the devastating state of addiction treatment. The bottom line: counselors with little education and less oversight are using outdated …
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Heroin problem getting younger; average age of people seeking treatment at 26

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That's new," says Caleb Banta-Green, a research scientist at the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. What's also new, he says, is how young the addicts are when they go into heroin treatment for the first time. "The biggest …
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Effective Addiction Treatment

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A groundbreaking report published last year by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University concluded that “the vast majority of people in need of addiction treatment do not receive anything that approximates …
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