CDC: Prescription Drug Abusers Are Turning to Less-Expensive Heroin to Stave … – Sacramento Bee

CDC: Prescription drug abusers are turning to less-expensive heroin to stave … – Sacramento Bee

CDC: Prescription drug abusers are turning to less-expensive heroin to stave
Sacramento Bee
Over the past three years, deaths from prescription drug abuse have far exceeded those from traffic accidents in California and several other states, making opioid dependency in particular an epidemic in the United States, according to experts from the 

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Lawmen focus on biggest drug problem: overdoses of prescribed meds – Las Vegas Sun

Lawmen focus on biggest drug problem: overdoses of prescribed meds
Las Vegas Sun
A multiagency drug-trafficking task force is devoting its entire two-day annual training conference in Las Vegas on the bigger problem: overdoses of drugs prescribed by doctors and sold at pharmacies. Last year, 841 people in Clark County died of
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University of Vermont tackles prescription drug abuse – BurlingtonFreePress.com

University of Vermont tackles prescription drug abuse
BurlingtonFreePress.com
When a University of Vermont student was arrested early in the morning Monday on suspicion of prescription drug possession, the campus was in the midst of final exam studying. Some speculate drug abuse rises during exam time, though the university 

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