Heroin Deaths Rise as Crackdown on Prescription Drug Abuse Succeeds

Heroin deaths rise as crackdown on prescription drug abuse succeeds
As efforts to crack down on the abuse of prescription drugs have worked, a new problem has emerged, with addicts who can no longer get their fix by popping pills turning to the old-fashioned street drug heroin, health and law enforcement officials say. Read more on Baltimore Sun

Celebrate Radio Network's Weekly Reaching Up to Focus on Substance Abuse …
In most media discussion of the triggers to violence in America, there has been silence about the causative effects of epidemic substance abuse. Celebrate Radio and its weekly Reaching Up series will concentrate on this cause as well as mental illness … Read more on San Francisco Chronicle