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Prescription Drug Abuse: Fla. Pain Clinics Hand Over Drugs Under New Law
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida – Under a new state law that took effect last week, clinics and doctors can only write prescriptions for pain drugs, which now must be filled at pharmacies. State agents and health officials are confiscating leftover pills from Florida pain clinics. Under a new state law that took effect last week, clinics and doctors can only write prescriptions for pain drugs, which …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: State-funded drug treatment facilities see less admission
Even amid an apparent epidemic of cheap heroin and prescription pill abuse in Massachusetts, admissions to drug and alcohol treatment programs paid for or contracted by the state dipped about 12 percent over the last decade.
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