Child services luncheon focuses on substance abuse effects
The Belmont County Department of Job and Family Services held its 13th annual luncheon to recognize child advocacy for child abuse prevention month. Many agencies gathered for the event, focusing talks on substance abuse and its effect on children.
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Posted: April 12, 2013 – 12:01 am ET
But unlike other areas of Medicare fraud, prescription drug abuse levels a heavy human toll seen in the rising rates of deaths and addictions, the births of drug-addicted babies and destruction wrought on rural towns hard-hit by the painkiller epidemic …
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Adderall: serious side effects but wide student use
Although the chances of addiction are high, nearly 25 percent of college students nationally have admitted to using the drug as a study aid, according to the Prescription Drug Abuse website. “People get stressed from college and turn to the easy fix …
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