Your Actions Reflect Your Beliefs and Define Your Influence

Your Actions Reflect Your Beliefs and Define Your Influence – Dave Cooke reflects on an insightful quote from respected drug abuse counselor, Bob Meehan: “We are much less influential by what we say than we would want t…

Almost Addicted: Is My (or My Loved One's) Drug Use a Problem?

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The book gives an overview of the classes of drugs and their effects, as well as the definition of addiction and how it differs from abuse. Later, it explores possible roots of addiction, including the role of one's family history, a drug's effects and …
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Zoeller backs pill mill bill, which passes house

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When Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller talks about the prescription drug abuse epidemic in Indiana, he often mentions former Scott County Coroner Kevin Collins, who decided not to seek re-election last year. “He just couldn't take it anymore. He …
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Bill would broaden definition of DUII

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House Bill 2115, in its original form this session, would have broadened the legal definition of “intoxicant” to any other drug “that adversely affects a person's mental or physical faculties to a noticeable or perceptible degree.” Oregon is one of …
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