Prescription Drug Abuse in the News

Prescription Drug Abuse: Detroit prison visit offers youths reality check
They appear nervous as they sit surrounded by the cinder-block walls of a Ryan Correctional Facility waiting room in Detroit. Since March 2010, groups of at-risk Saginaw County teens ages 14 to 18 have visited this Detroit prison, its perimeters lined with high fences, guard shacks and razor wire, to experience its prisoner-led Youth Deterrent Program.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Is Facebook killing the high school reunion?
Rachel Riebow suspects the social networking site is one reason getting her classmates to attend their 10-year reunion at Armwood High School in Seffner, Fla., has been like pulling teeth. Why bother when you already know what everyone’s up to, and can so easily connect with the people you wish to see?
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Connecting with your old classmates may be easier than confronting who you used to be
As Tara Hoffman gears up for her 20th high school reunion this summer, she’s looking forward less to memory lane than to shedding the snobby reputation that got her voted “most likely to marry the next Donald Trump.”
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Cape police detectives arrest suspect for trafficking prescription pills
On July 12th at 8:45pm, Cape Coral Police Narcotics Detectives made arrangements to purchase 40 Oxycontin (20mg) tablets and 10 Percocet (10mg) tablets for $ 500 from Roy Lee Hudson of Cape Coral.
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