What Causes Drug and Alcohol Addiction?

What Causes Drug and Alcohol Addiction? – In this video Dr. Mike Marino examines the causes of and effective treatment for substance abuse and addiction problems.

'Tweener' hospital takes charge in drug abuse, community health

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The leading cause of death in Ohio isn't car crashes or suicide; it's drug abuse. That isn't a statistic Fairfield Medical Center in Lancaster takes lightly. Although it's a 222-bed nonprofit hospital, described as a "tweener hospital" with limited …
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Opana: Abusing Pain Drug Can Cause Fatal Blood Disorder, FDA Warns

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Prescription drug abuse leads to more deaths in the United States than heroin and cocaine combined, and rural residents are nearly twice as likely to overdose on pills than people in big cities, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Law …
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Health providers discuss drug harm, treatment

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A panel of Marshfield Clinic and Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital health care providers described the path from prescription drug use to heroin abuse, the physical harm that drug use can cause and how providers intervene and treat patients who abuse drugs.
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