Drug Abuse

Prescription Drug Abuse: Painkillers are a gateway to heroin
This past winter, I found myself following a drug dealer and his crew up the dark stairway of a triple-decker apartment building on the outskirts of Boston. Reaching a unit on the top floor, the young man pulled a gun from his waistband and set it on a coffee table next to a digital scale and a pile of drugs.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Ohio gov: Board can start regulating pain clinics
The Associated Press The Associated Press COLUMBUS, Ohio Ohio Gov. John Kasich (KAY’-sik) is allowing the state medical board to start regulating pain management clinics to fight drug abuse and keep them from operating as so-called “pill mills.” The first-term Republican governor has made the fight against prescription painkiller abuse a top priority and says it’s become a crisis in Ohio. He …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Social norms
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Prescription Drug Abuse: 4 men face drug charges
Four Scioto County men, who troopers say had just returned from a trip to Florida, have been arrested with 328 pills, following a possible crash on Ohio 139 at Rosemount. Daniel Lewis, 35, Craig Ad…
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