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Deaths From Overdosing on Painkillers Rise Locally – Ocala
Drug Abuse Statistics: Deaths from overdosing on painkillers rise locally – Ocala
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Deaths from overdosing on painkillers rise locally
Ocala In July, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released statistics for Florida from 2003 to 2009. Deaths due to oxycodone overdoses jumped 265 percent in that time frame, and prescription drug overdoses — abusers of opiates sometimes combine … |
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Federal Grant to Help Tri-Cities Prescription Drug Addicts
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Federal Grant To Help Tri-Cities Prescription Drug Addicts
A $ 550,000 grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help three Tri-City hospitals set up a new system to track prescription drug addicts who visit multiple emergency rooms to get painkillers.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Studies find growing number of teens using drugs found at home
New studies show more teens start using drugs during the summer. Parents are at work, and the teens are at home alone and maybe bored.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Addiction experts defend drug for heroin addicts
One addiction expert claims that while Suboxone, like any other drug, can be abused, it is not the prescription drug of choice for those addicted to heroin.
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Drug Abuse: Prescription Pill Abuse Rampant in East Tennessee – WVLT
Drug Abuse: Prescription pill abuse rampant in East Tennessee – WVLT
By the grace of the judge and God, they gave me a program I could go to.” There’s another person with a front row seat to the ravages of prescription drug abuse. Judge Rex Ogle says 75% of his court docket these days is linked to illegal prescription drugs.
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Drug Abuse: Grant to help Tri-City hospitals track addicts, ER visits
A $ 550,000 grant from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will help three Tri-Cit
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Drug Abuse: Death of whistleblower ‘not suspicious’
The death of Sean Hoare, a former News of the World journalist and whistleblower on the escalating phone-hacking scandal, was “not suspicious” and involved no third party, police said a post-mortem has showed.The post-mortem…
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Drug Peddlers Trying to Get Penan Kids Hooked – star.com.my
Drug Abuse: Drug peddlers trying to get Penan kids hooked – star.com.my
KUCHING: Drug abuse has reared its ugly head among the youths of the minority ethnic groups like the Penans in the interior of northern Sarawak. With remote villages now accessible by logging roads, drug peddlers are finding it easier to reach new …
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Drug Abuse: Martin Sheen advocates for Drug Courts at Senate hearing – CBS News
Additionally, they have indirect benefits for drug abuse and domestic violence, which are well supported by scientific evidence. “There are people in this room taking medication that has less evidence of success than drug courts,” Marlowe said. David …
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Drug Abuse: Firestone’s Bartley accepts plea agreement on firearms charge
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Firestone senior Andrew Bartley, a two-time state swimming champion, pled guilty to an amended charge of mishandling a firearm in a motor vehicle, a first degree misdemeanor, and was sentenced to 180 days in jail last…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Abuse Forum Held in Wytheville – Southwest Virginia Today
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription abuse forum held in Wytheville – Southwest Virginia Today
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Prescription abuse forum held in Wytheville
Southwest Virginia Today According to a 2011 report from the Office of the President of the United States, prescription drug abuse is the nation's fastest growing drug problem. They are the second most commonly abused drugs, after marijuana. Virginia is one of 16 states in the … |
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Trumbull Task Force Meets to Beat Opiates – WYTV
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Trumbull Task Force Meets to Beat Opiates
WYTV The task force is designed to bring people and resources together and target prescription drug abuse. Trumbull County ranks eighth in Ohio for accidental deaths due to prescription overdoses. The task force works at educating the public and restricting … |
SW Virginia Officials Warn of Opana Overdose
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Prescription Drug Abuse: SW Virginia Officials Warn of Opana Overdose
Officials in Tazewell County are warning about the dangers of an increasingly popular synthetic drug that has been blamed for several overdoses in the county.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Betty Ford’s legacy: candor and inspiration
Betty Ford conquered her own addiction to help save the lives of others, a legacy that her family said Saturday tempered the loss of a mother who left a deep void.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Youth Risk Behavior Survey Shows Increase in Bullying, Prescription Drug Use
A survey developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention engages our youth in frank conversations about risky behaviors and as NewsChannel 5’s Kacey Drescher reports, drugs and alcohol shouldn’t be parents only concern.
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