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Unit 1: Living with Drugs

History of Alcohol and Drinking around the World, David J. Hanson,Preventing Alcohol Abuse: Alcohol, Culture, and Control, 1995

Alcohol use by humans, probably tens of thousands of years old, has both comforted and plagued almost every society. In this discussion, author David Hanson describes the drug's journey through time.

New Abuse-Deterrent Painkiller Approved, Stephanie Smith,CNN, 2014

In order to reduce both abuse and drug overdose deaths, the Food and Drug Administration approved a drug called Targiniq ER, which combines the painkiller oxycodone and the overdló&