Posts Tagged ‘drug abuse’
Heroin Abuse: ‘It’s Your Child, It’s My Child’
March 21, 2014 Carol Falkowski has spent years collecting data, studying trends and educating the public about substance abuse. Today, she is sounding an alarm. The former drug-abuse-strategy officer for the state says, “We have an emerging heroin problem the likes of which has never existed before.” Moreover, she says, “We now have an entrenched…
Read MoreAddiction: Waiting for That Phone Call
August 5, 2011 Throughout her relatively brief career, media reports seemed to focus as much on British singer/songwriter Amy Winehouse’s troubled life as on her music. Last month, her father, outspoken about Amy’s drug and alcohol addiction, depression, early stage emphysema and legal woes, received the call he had anticipated, informing him his daughter had…
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