Doctors Hear of Horrors of Epidemic of Prescription-Drug Addiction

Doctors Hear of Horrors of Epidemic of Prescription-Drug Addiction

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Prescription drugs were implicated in the deaths of more than 700 state residents in both 2011 and 2012, according to statistics released by Dr. Roger Mitchell, the New Jersey assistant state medical examiner. He contrasted that number with the 75 …
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History must be discussed with both the good and the bad intact

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To summarize Reagan's drug policy implemented by the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, the distribution of just five grams of crack cocaine carries a minimum sentence of five years in federal prison, while the same minimum sentence is applied to the …
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Conquering desensitization

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As Joseph Stalin, who was responsible for more than 680,000 deaths during the Great Purge of 1937-1938 in the Soviet Union, infamously said, “One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic.” As Americans, our absence at these devastating events …
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