Drug Abuse

Hospital, police see increase in overdoses
Cohen said he has seen a strong increase in the number of people with psychological problems who sometimes use over-the-counter drugs in an attempt to end their lives, but he believed most of the illegal drug-related overdoses were accidental. “They …
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House bill limits cough medicine sales to adults
Braley added that in 2013, the National Institute on Drug Abuse found that 1 in 20 teens in high school are trying to get high off of OTC cough medicines, and need to take excessive doses to reach that high. Under the bill, retailers who sell these …
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Fla law agency chemist may have stolen evidence
"This has the potential of impacting hundreds of drug cases across our state," Bailey told reporters. … sheriff's departments and police departments around the state and actually physically looking _ especially at the prescription meds _ to see if …
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