LIVE: Will Drug Users' Addiction to Bitcoin Help or Hurt It?
LIVE: Will Drug Users' Addiction to Bitcoin Help or Hurt It?
Filed under: drug addiction
Crypto-currency Bitcoin has gone from skyrocketed value, to overhyped nothing, back to somewhere in the middle over the last few weeks. While Bitcoin tries to find its place as an alternative to the US Fed's dollar, there is one Bitcoin enthusiast who …
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Editorial: Prescription-drug abuse lead-in to heroin
Filed under: drug addiction
Legislation enacted in 2012 heightens demands on medical professionals, and gives new tools to law enforcement, in an effort to reduce prescription-drug abuse — seen as a gateway to heroin use. But families, as a starting point, can do more to tackle …
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Judicial Heavyweight Calls Criminalizing Drug Use 'Highly Problematic' In High …
Filed under: drug addiction
This week, a federal appeals court upheld a particularly harsh drug sentence for Cameron Douglas, son of actor Michael Douglas. When Douglas was initially sentenced, he received an unusually light punishment of 60 months in prison for conspiring to …
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Reform To Give Over 3 Million Addicts Eligibility For Health Insurance
Filed under: drug addiction
While it's been six decades since doctors concluded addiction was a treatable disease, only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United States goes toward care for alcoholics and drug addicts. But in less than a year the huge barrier for addicts …
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