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Teen Drug Abuse

Drug abuse by teenagers is very common, which can lead to disastrous consequences in the future. A large proportion of deaths in people between 15 and 24 are reportedly connected in some way or the other to drug or alcohol...

By: Jennifer Bailey

Why is Alcohol a Drug?

In Narcotics Anonymous and other 12 step programs recovery is usually defined as complete abstinence from all mood and mind altering drugs. This includes the legal drug, alcohol. I have heard this questioned and debated ma...

By: Phil Huff

Heroin Addiction

Heroin is a highly addictive, illegal drug. It among the most abused and fastest acting of the opiates (opiates, also called narcotics, are a family of drugs which are used in the medical profession to relieve pain, but ar...

By: Jack Smith

I read the article in your paper last week about an employee at a local physician's office who faces charges of, among other things, prescription fraud.

SWANTON - Dora Brodeur knew it the moment her daughter, Alexis Gabree, walked into the kitchen on the morning of Sept.

ST. ALBANS - Local pediatrician Fred Holmes rocked back in his chair and mused about the day a teenager he had treated as a boy walked into his office to ask for help dealing with his OxyContin abuse.

Bicyclist, 63, critically injured LEICESTER -- A 63-year-old Spencer bicyclist was critically injured yesterday afternoon when he was struck by a car on Route 9 near 1601 Main St., police said last ni...

ST. ALBANS - Sarah Bouchard remembers how it began. "I met a guy and it just so happened his dad was getting prescribed all sorts of drugs," she says.