Prescription Drug Abuse in the News

Prescription Drug Abuse: WA Health Department to monitor prescriptions
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The Washington state Health Department plans to step up monitoring of pharmacy prescriptions next year to prevent painkiller abuse and overdose deaths. The department is holding a hearing Monday in Tumwater on the monitoring rules.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Afghan opium output hit by disease, Myanmar’s up: U.N.
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Global production of opium fell 38 percent in 2010 as plant disease hit crops in top producer Afghanistan, but output in number two producer Myanmar rose sharply, the United Nations said Thursday.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Afghan opium output hit by disease, Myanmar’s up – UN
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Global production of opium fell 38 percent in 2010 as plant disease hit crops in top producer Afghanistan, but output in number two producer Myanmar rose sharply, the United Nations said on Thursday.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse (Phoenix House Campaign)

Video I made for a Phoenix House Campaign. Uses a clip from Lil Wayne’s “Runnin” featuring Shanell

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