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Prescription drug abuse surged 400 percent in past decade
Prescription drug abuse is not just on the rise – it has become a national crisis, according to a just-released White House study detailing a 400 percent increase in substance abuse treatment admissions for prescription pain relievers between 1998 and 2008.
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The Social Consequences of Methamphetamine Use (Interdisciplinary Studies in Alcohol and Drug Use and Abuse, V.

This study analyzed the pharmacological effects, situational contexts and processual dynamics of methamphetamine use, distribution, and violence, using interviews. Evidence supports previous research that suggests continuity from youth aggression to adult violence. Findings indicate that long-term influences – family, psychological/personality, and peer factors lead to the development of fairly stable, slowly changing differences between individuals in their potential for violence. Superimposed on these long-term between-individual differences are short-term within-individual variations in violence potential. For many of the sample members that engaged in violence, chronic methamphetamine use had a disorganizing effect on their cognitive functions, which in turn lead to distorted interpretations of behavior and reduced an individual’s ability to use various coping devices in situations seen as threatening. The study could find no evidence of a single, uniform career path that all chron

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School-Based Drug Use Prevention Programs Receive Funding
Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray announced that local law enforcement agencies across the state will receive .2 million in funding for drug use prevention programs, the highest amount of funding for annual grants in the history of the Attorney General’s Drug Use Prevention Grant. The grants support school-based programs that educate students about drug abuse and provide them with the …
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