Prescription Drug Abuse in the News

Prescription Drug Abuse: O.C. parents sue doctor after son’s overdose on prescription drugs
Riley Russo and Ryan Winter, both 20, died after abusing the powerful narcotic Opana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. The physician, Lisa Tseng, has now been linked to 10 overdose deaths. The parents of two young Orange County men who died of overdoses filed lawsuits Friday alleging that a Rowland Heights physician acted like a drug dealer in selling prescriptions to their sons.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription pad provision of Florida pill mill law temporarily suspended
Florida’s surgeon general has temporarily suspended part of the state’s new “pill mill” legislation.
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