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The Differences Between Dependence, Abuse, and Addiction of Prescription Drugs

Prescription drugs can be helpful for some people. However, when a person does not use those drugs according to the doctor’s requirements, there is often a risk of abuse and addiction. Recognizing changes in yourself or your use of substances like this is important. The escalation from abuse to addiction or dependence can happen quickly.…

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What’s Really in Your Drugs?

Drug dealers have taken on a new role as a chef, creating concoctions of multiple deadly drugs. Drug dealers have been marketing what they sell on the street as pills, heroin or cocaine. But in reality it is likely a product of fentanyl cutting. Creating counterfeit drugs in this way allows dealers to make more…