Tag Archives: substance abuse

Thursday, September 26th, 2019

Do Most Patients Prescribed Opioids Use Them as Directed?

A new study, recently published in the American Journal of Public Health, has found that the vast majority of adult patients who were prescribed opioids used them for medicinal...
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Friday, May 4th, 2018

MN Parental Substance Abuse No. 1 Reason for Removing Children from Home

The main goal for child protective services nationwide is to keep families intact when possible. For residents of Goodhue County, and in the rest of Minnesota, the trend is...
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2018

Parents’ Substance Abuse Primary Reason Most Children Placed in Foster Care

The number of child protection reports is on the rise in Minnesota, and parents’ substance abuse is the primary reason most children end up placed in the foster care...
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Sunday, July 23rd, 2017

Researchers Find Substance Abuse Affects Memory & Attention

Oftentimes it requires studies to verify the seemingly obvious. For instance, there was a recent study that concluded that substance use affected memory and attention. However, while it may...
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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

More Doctors, Hospitals Using Brief Interventions

The medical community has come under fire in the last few years for the excessive amount of prescription painkiller addicts in the country. Many critics place a large portion...
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