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The Greater Dallas Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse will celebrate its 60th anniversary with a breakfast on Wednesday, November 1st beginning at 7:45am at the Doubletree Hotel in Campbell Center. The keynote speaker for the breakfast will be Dr. Ron Anderson, President and CEO of Parkland Health and Hospital System. In addition, special recognition will be given to Council partners, including: United Way of Metropolitan Dallas (Community Award); Capital One (Corporate Award); and Thomas Jefferson High School (Volunteer Award).
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Research from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) shows that drug abuse and addiction are treatable problems. By undergoing a recovery plan that includes detoxification from drugs and physical rehabilitation, including a nutritional diet, regular exercise and bed rest, drug abusers can help free their physiologies from the effects of drug use.
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Once a 'hippie drug', whose use was confined to small groups, cannabis is becoming abused by large population groups, primarily the young, warns the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) in its latest annual report. The Board is especially concerned over the easy availability of very potent cannabis varieties, detailed cannabis cultivation instructions, and paraphernalia. In many countries these can be obtained in so-called 'hemp shops' or through the Internet. The unregulated sale of cannabis seeds and growing paraphernalia has ... led to an upsurge in indoor cannabis cultivation.
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DIPRO's DRUGLAB(TM) products, designed for criminal law enforcement, are mobile diagnostic drug-testing systems that provide accurate, on-the-spot screening for drugs-of-abuse. Kits employ easy-to-use, one-step methods to identify and detect surface materials and unmarked configurations of bulk materials for drugs-of-abuse that include amphetamines, barbiturates, benzodiazepines, cannabinoids, cocaine, methamphetamine, opiates and tricyclic antidepressants. Test performance is simple and requires no special training or certification.
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Some athletes may ... abuse erythropoietin (a drug that doctors use to treat anemia, also known as Epogen and Procrit) to boost production of red blood cells. Athletes hope that the increased numbers of red blood cells will deliver more oxygen to muscles and improve endurance. Erythropoietin abuse can alter the body's regulation of red blood cell production. Once the drug is stopped, the number of red blood cells may drop suddenly.
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As a matter of preventing drug abuse at the gateway drug stage, the Michigan safe cigarettes law needs to be enforced. Please help. The law against this deleterious and adulterated product needs to be enforced. Please assign officers to protect abulic smokers, children, and nonsmokers, by enforcing the safe cigarettes act, MCL § 750.27, MSA § 28.216. Please have them halt the rampant violations, and interdict deleterious and adulterated cigarettes.
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