For some addicition is an obsessive compulsive disorder and so is stealing to support the drug habit.
Addiction kills, sometimes in a sudden, mysterious and unheard of way.
If you don't care about people's lives and drive drunk, they will know about you through your tag.
A novel method of keeping kids away has been found.
None is safe from the cunning, baffling and powerful lure of alcohol.
Pepper spray deaths can be caused by lethal combination of cocaine and chillies.
Nurses can form the vanguard against alcohol and drug abuse.
Alocohol abuse is killing three times more people in Wales in just one generation. Alcohol-related deaths in Wales rose from 199 in 1992 to 573 last year, with the sharpest rise taking place in the past two years.
Experts say people who routinely abuse pain-killers are inviting trouble: In 2005, non-medical use of painkillers contributed to more than 8,500 deaths.
Prescription drug abuse can occur rather easily through doctor-shopping -- getting the prescription drugs from different doctors -- and could have been a factor in the death of king of pop music Michael Jackson.
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