Drug Abuse

Prescription Drug Abuse: Oklahoma prescription database is tool to curb drug abuse
July 1 was the fifth anniversary of the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs’ Prescription Monitoring Program that requires doctors to report heavy-duty drugs. The goal is to prevent patients from hopping from doctor to doctor and taking prescription drugs in abusive doses. Beginning Jan. 1, doctors will have to submit their prescriptions within five minutes.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Tomblin: Coordinated drug abuse effort needed
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Senate President Earl Ray Tomblin, who is acting as governor, said drug abuse in West Virginia is a wide-reaching problem that requires a coordinated effort to combat. Last week, Tomblin held six roundtable meetings across the state t…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription drug drop-off box installed
Disposing of unwanted or outdated prescription drugs will be easier for the citizens of Onslow County. The Jacksonville Police Department partnered with the White Oak New Riverkeeper Alliance and the Jacksonville-Onslow Chamber of Commerce to install…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Fla. Pain Clinics Hand Over Drugs Under New Law
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 now must be filled at pharmacies.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Ron Paul and Barney Frank are wrong about weed, says former drug czar
Ron Paul wants to decriminalize marijuana, Bill Bennett says that’s a bad idea
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