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Admissions to Twin Cities area treatment programs for addiction to methamphetamine (meth) continued to decline in 2008, according to a report on drug abuse trends released today by the Minnesota Department of Human Services. The report is produced twice annually to monitor emerging patterns and trends in drug abuse and treatment. Meth-related treatment admissions accounted for [...] Resources: DAANES, PMQI 2010. Moldenhauer, Rick. MS, LADC, ICADC, LPCC. Treatment Services Consultant, MN State Opiod Treatment Authority. Note: The following Graphs, Background, Area Description and Data Sources are an excerpt from the “Drug Abuse Trends Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN for January 2010, by Carol Falkowski, Alcohol and Drug Abuse Division, Minnesota Department of Human Services. To download the entire PDF, please go to: http://www.dhs.state.mn.us/main/groups/disabilities/documents/pub/dhs16_147922.pdf Source: Drug and Alcohol Abuse Normative Evaluation System (DAANES), Minnesota [...] During 1999–2006, the number of poisoning deaths in the United States nearly doubled, from approximately 20,000 to 37,000, largely because of overdose deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers (1). This increase coincided with a nearly fourfold increase in the use of prescription opioids nationally (2). In Washington, in 2006, the rate of poisoning involving opioid painkillers [...] NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Young children whose mothers abuse drugs may face a higher risk of abuse and placement in foster care, a new study finds. Australian researchers found that infants whose mothers abused amphetamines or opiates such as heroin were 13 times more likely to become victims of neglect or abuse than other children [...] The finding paves way for a DNA test to screen for those people who are most at risk of becoming drug addicts or alcoholics. In a study of 3,627 volunteers, the researchers found that women of European origin with a mutated version of a gene, known as PKNOX2, were almost twice as likely to become substance [...] |
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