Prescription Drug Abuse in the News

Prescription Drug Abuse: Drug drop-boxes are big hit
Those drug drop-boxes at area police stations are proving to be a big hit, with hundreds of pounds of cast-off pharmaceutical and over-the-counter medications being hauled off for incineration, out of the hands of potential abusers — and out of landfills and water-treatment plants.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: The nation’s fastest growing drug problem
Healthcare providers gathered in the NRV to tackle prescription drug abuse These pills are meant to help, but in the wrong hands they can do more harm than good.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Pfizer to buy pain drug developer Icagen for M
Pfizer Inc. said Wednesday that it’s reached a definitive agreement to buy Icagen, a small biopharmaceutical company that’s developing pain medicines.
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