Growing Opiate Addiction in NY Troubles Lawmakers

Published March 3, 2014

Growing opiate addiction in NY troubles lawmakers
This legislative session, Cymbrowitz, chair of the Assembly Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, is asking for increased funding to the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services and is looking to pass two bills that would help opiate addicts …
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Legislation seeks to help reduce drug overdose deaths in New York
That law has been gaining traction since the recent high-profile death in New York City of Oscar-winning actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Hoffman is believed to have died of a heroin overdose. The scourge of drug addiction, heroin especially, has also …
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Lack of law on medical marijuana vexing NY as parents must leave state to help …
Critics also say medical marijuana could fall into the black market, lead users to more dangerous drugs and is a slippery slope, as seen in Colorado, to full legalization of the drug for recreational use. But if New York does not act before this fall …
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