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Alcohol or Drug Abuse Recovery: Your Doctor Can Help
Family Doctor — The decision to stop using alcohol or other drugs is very important to your health. If your doctor knows that your have made this decision, he or she can give you emotional support and treat any medical problems that may occur during your ...More…
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Alcohol or Drug Abuse Recovery: Your Doctor Can Help
Family Doctor — Is it safe to take medicine for pain or anxiety if I have these problems? Is it safe to take an antidepressant if depression is a problem during my recovery? Why do I need to tell my doctor that I am in recovery? The decision to stop using ...More…
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Women and Drug Abuse
Clevand Clinic — Today, more than 4 million women in this country use drugs. Women of all ages, races and cultures..... Women just like your best friend, your sister, your co-worker, or your daughter....Women just like you. Drug abuse is a serious, continuing ...More…
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Over The Counter Drug Abuse at Family Guide
Family Guide — Parents worry about their child being offered drugs from a stranger on a street corner or a friend at a party. But a child can get deadly drugs from a person you might never suspect-you. The over-the-counter (OTC) drugs you use to soothe a cough ...More…
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Drug Abuse Continues To Decline Among Adolescents
National Institute of Drug Abuse — Drug abuse among adolescents aged 12 to 17 declined 9 percent between 2002 and 2004, according to a nationwide survey tracking substance abuse trends. Recently released results from the 2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) also ...More…
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Medical Consequences of Drug Abuse
National Institute of Drug Abuse — Drug addiction is a brain disease. Although initial drug use might be voluntary, drugs of abuse have been shown to alter gene expression and brain circuitry, which in turn affect human behavior. Once addiction develops, these brain changes ...More…
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Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction - InfoFacts - NIDA
National Institute of Drug Abuse — Addiction is a chronic, often relapsing brain disease that causes compulsive drug seeking and use despite harmful consequences to the individual who is addicted and to those around them. Drug addiction is a brain disease because the abuse of ...More…
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Women and Drug Abuse
National Institute of Drug Abuse — Today, more than 4 million women in this country use drugs. Women of all ages, races and cultures..... Women just like your best friend, your sister, your co-worker, or your daughter....Women just like you. Drug abuse is a serious, continuing ...More…
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Understanding Drug Abuse and Addiction - InfoFacts - NIDA
Institute of Drug Abuse — Many people do not understand why individuals become addicted to drugs or how drugs change the brain to foster compulsive drug abuse. They mistakenly view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem and may characterize those who take ...More…
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NIDA - Stress and Drug Abuse
Institute of Drug Abuse — In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., people across the country and abroad are struggling with the emotional impact of large-scale damage and loss of life, as well as the uncertainty of what will happen ...More…
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Preventing Drug Abuse among Children and Adolescents - Index
National Institute of Drug Abuse — NIDA hopes that research can continue to provide effective, appropriate, and practical approaches for communities working on the challenges of preventing drug abuse among children and adolescents nationwide. Copies of this guide can be obtained ...More…
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NIDA for Teens: The Science Behind Drug Abuse
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