Russell Brand BBC Documentary ‘I Took Drugs Every Day’

Russell Brand BBC Documentary ‘I Took Drugs Every Day’ – Russell Brand has told Newsnight’s Stephanie Flanders he believes in ”abstinence-based recovery” as a method to tackle drug and alcohol addiction. The come…

Passages Malibu Makes Public Comments Following Alarming Prescription …

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Prescription medication was prescribed evenly across all age groups, with the exception of high blood pressure drugs. The survey analyzed medical records in Olmstead County in Minnesota and the statistics from that survey are comparable to the general …
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Opioid overdose deaths skyrocket in women

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For the analysis, CDC researchers used data from the 1999-2010 National Vital Statistics System and the 2004-2010 Drug Abuse Warning Network to analyze rates of fatal overdoses and ED visits related to drug use or misuse among women (MMWR 2013 …
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'Oxyana' maker defends lack of W.Va. fact-checking

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(AP) — The director of “Oxyana”, a documentary about drug addiction in the southern West Virginia coalfields, says he didn't try to verify some shocking statistics used in it because he wasn't concerned whether they were accurate. Director Sean Dunne …
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