Archive for November 2011
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November 29, 2011 – Treating smoking like a chronic disease helps smokers quit, a new study suggests. Providing long-term assistance to smokers, similar to the approach used in treating high blood pressure and diabetes, increases smoking cessation rates, the study…
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November 28, 2011 – Adult female tobacco users have proven an elusive consumer group for manufacturers’ smokeless/smokefree products, particularly — and especially — if they involve spitting. However, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported recently its Camel dissolvable tobacco products, which…
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(from drugfree.org) Some pain experts say doctors not adequately educated about opioids are contributing to the problem of prescription drug abuse by overprescribing the drugs. Because there are relatively few pain specialists in the United States, pain management often is…
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(from drugfree.org) The number of newborn babies exposed to prescription painkillers is on the rise, USA Today reports. The babies’ mothers are addicted to opioids such as oxycodone or hydrocodone. “I’m scared to death this will become the crack-baby epidemic,”…
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November 23, 2011 – Major League Baseball (MLB) and the players’ union announced new restrictions on the use of tobacco products on and off the field, starting with the 2012 season. While this isn’t everything we had hoped for, it is…
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(from drugfree.org) Emergency rooms reported 14,270 intentional poisonings in 2009, according to a new government report. Alcohol was a factor in 60 percent of cases. Nearly two-thirds of ER visits for intentional poisonings were by women, according to the report…
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All children wake up in a world that is not of their own making, but children of alcoholics and other drug addicted parents wake up in a world that doesn’t take care of them. No matter what we name their…
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November 16, 2011 – NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Despite the fact that Americans’ access to basic necessities, such as food, medicine, shelter, and healthcare has reached a four-year low of 81.2 percent this October, 21.1 percent of adult Americans continue to smoke, according…
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November 15, 2011 – The incidence of heart attacks and sudden deaths has fallen nearly in half since smoking bans took effect in southeastern Minnesota, according to new research from the Mayo Clinic. The Rochester-based organization said the data bolsters…
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November 9, 2011-We’re lighting up less in Wisconsin, and that is a good thing. But while recent tax hikes and abatement efforts have apparently had some impact on cigarette sales and people’s habits, there still are 19 percent of all…
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