[CR] 60 Min. 1

Published May 23, 2013

[CR] 60 Min. 1 – 60 Minutes appearance, part one.

Prescription Sleep Medications Causing More ER Visits

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

This week, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration published a new study which shows that emergency room (ER) visits caused by prescription sleeping medication increased by a whopping 220 percent from 2005 to 2010. Zolpidem, which is the …
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Everything You Think You Know About Addiction Is Wrong

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

… to drugs. Now, Sheff's newest book, Clean, goes beyond the story of one family to tackle nothing less than the entire subject of addiction in the U.S.—cause, prevention, treatment—with a goal, he says, of “ending America's greatest tragedy …
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When celebrities share secrets, good things happen

Filed under: drug rehab treatment- lowering the drinking age

In 1978, former first lady Betty Ford entered the Long Beach Naval Hospital's Drug and Rehabilitation Service, and publicly admitted her own alcohol and drug dependency. In 1982, she became founding director of the Betty Ford Center for the treatment …
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