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May 04, 2020
Utah state liquor stores are seeing a spike in sales during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many are turning to alcohol for a variety of reasons. Some of it may be about stockpiling—but there can be cause for concern of substance abuse.
April 22, 2019
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August 14, 2018
Pregnant women with opioid use disorders often face a number of challenges during their pregnancies.
December 05, 2016
There are those shoppers whose impulse buys are so common that they might be teased as “shopaholics.”
August 29, 2016
As the opioid epidemic grows so does the spread of fentanyl. A new report in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report shows the number of drug products testing positive for fentanyl rose 426 percent between 2013 and 2014 nationwide.
August 15, 2016
There are a growing number of newborns being seen with what is known as neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS), a set of physical and behavioral symptoms in those born to mothers who took addictive prescription or illicit drugs during pregnancy.
June 03, 2016
Prince was an extraordinary musician and performer. Unfortunately, the cause of his death—an overdose of the opioid fentanyl—is all too ordinary.
March 11, 2016
The number of Americans using marijuana is going up. As some states legalize the drug for medicinal and recreational use, more and more people are trying it, based largely on the assumption that it is non-habit forming. However, a new study shows that is far from the truth.
June 03, 2015
Every day in the United States, 44 people die from overdoses of prescription opioids such as OxyContin, Vicodin, and Percocet.
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