Teen addiction expert to speak in Vancouver

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A nationally recognized neuroscientist will host a talk at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center on how drug addiction affects the teenage brain.
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Drug addiction helped cut Spokane woman's life short

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Kala Williams' friends and family want to remember her as a bright, outgoing person who had ambitions of being a nurse, and not the person who struggled with drug addiction whose life was cut short.
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Drug courts help prevent crimes

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Drug possession and use are not just crimes themselves, they tend to lead to other crimes. Here at the Office of the Attorney General, we see almost daily the connection between drug addiction and other criminal behaviors. We have many cases in which thefts and burglaries are related to drug use, either because the defendant is under the influence or because the individual is trying to support …
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Powerful prescription drug Opana becoming new drug of choice

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A new prescription drug addiction is on the rise in Western Pennsylvania, and doctors said it is starting to replace Oxycontin as the drug of choice in the city and suburbs. A Washington County doctor was charged this year with misprescribing the drug Opana, and a Moon Township mother was recently arrested on charges of selling the powerful painkiller. “We clearly have an epidemic of …
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