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Treatment for addicts is starting to change
Filed under: cocaine use and abuse
About 21 million Americans have a substance-abuse disorder for which they need specialty treatment, according to 2010 statistics from the government-funded National Survey on Drug Use and Health. Deaths from drug overdoses now exceed traffic fatalities. Read more on Los Angeles Times

Report: Military failing to rein in alcohol, drug use
Filed under: cocaine use and abuse
Such prescription-drug abuse is rising faster within the military than among civilians, and it is perhaps more common than the use of illegal drugs such as cocaine or marijuana. Yet the military's drug-testing regimen, created in the post-Vietnam era … Read more on Columbus Dispatch