Drug Abuse

Senator Pat Toomey discusses prescription drug abuse in Delco
Attention toward the county’s prescription drug abuse problem was the focus of a roundtable discussion at the Ridley Township Municipal Building on Wednesday morning. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

CDC: Prescription drug abusers are turning to less-expensive heroin to stave off ‘dope sickness’
Over the past three years, deaths from prescription drug abuse have far exceeded those from traffic accidents in California and several other states, making opioid dependency in particular an epidemic in the United States, according to experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Corbett promotes prescription-drug drop-off boxes
HARRISBURG – Gov. Corbett is trying to raise awareness of prescription-drug abuse, encouraging Pennsylvanians to empty their medicine cabinets of expired or unused pharmaceuticals and dispose of them in one of 250 new drop-off boxes in the state. Prescription Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results