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Facing Addiction in America [1]
12/15/2016
addiction [2], epidemic [3], surgeon General [4]
78 People Die a Day From Opioid Overdose, Surgeon General Says in Landmark Report [5]
11/17/2016

n 2015, the report notes, substance-abuse disorders affected 20.8 million people in the United States — as many as those with diabetes and 1.5 times as many as those with cancer. Yet, Murthy said, only one in 10 people receives treatment.
“We would never tolerate a situation where only one in 10 people with cancer or diabetes gets treatment, and yet we do that with substance-abuse disorders,” he said.


surgeon General [4], addiction [2], epidemic [3]
Complexities in understanding and addressing the serious public health issues related to the nonmedical use of prescription drugs [6]
09/01/2016

A common theme among every article in this issue is the overlap be- tween NMUPD, excessive drinking, and marijuana and other forms of substance use. In every investigation, nonmedical users were observed to have a history of using alcohol, marijuana, tobacco, and other psycho- active substances. Kalyanam, Katsuki, Lanckriet, and Mackey (2017)
Kalyanam, J., Katsuki, T., Lanckriet, G., & Mackey, T. K. (2017). Exploring trends of non- medical use of prescription drugs and polydrug abuse in the Twittersphere using un- supervised machine learning. Addictive Behaviors, 65, 289–295. http://dx.doi.org/10 [7]. 1016/j.addbeh.2016.08.019.


Studies [8], Research [9], Prescription [10], epidemic [3], 2017 Legislation [11]

If you think legalizing marijuana won't affect you... Think Again.


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[1] http://www.rethinkpot.org/facing-addiction-america
[2] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/addiction
[3] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/epidemic
[4] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/surgeon-general
[5] http://www.rethinkpot.org/78-people-die-day-opioid-overdose-surgeon-general-says-landmark-report
[6] http://www.rethinkpot.org/complexities-understanding-and-addressing-serious-public-health-issues-related-nonmedical-use
[7] http://dx.doi.org/10
[8] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/study
[9] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/research
[10] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/prescription
[11] http://www.rethinkpot.org/tags/2017-legislation