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Film Screened in Concord Fights Prescription Drug Abuse – San Jose Mercury News
Film screened in Concord fights prescription drug abuse – San Jose Mercury News
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Film screened in Concord fights prescription drug abuse
San Jose Mercury News CONCORD — Aaron Rubin, a quadriplegic unable to speak due to a prescription drug overdose, uses his fingers to communicate: one means yes, two means no. Does he regret taking that first pill? He raised his index finger. Did he think prescription drugs … |
Painkiller Abuse Hits New States – Wall Street Journal
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Painkiller Abuse Hits New States
Wall Street Journal "We're just in the beginning stages of grasping the full magnitude of this issue," said Elisha Figueroa, Idaho's drug-policy administrator, who started noticing that prescription-drug abuse was becoming pervasive in her state about two years ago … |
Film Screened in Concord Fights Prescription Drug Abuse – San Jose Mercury News
Film screened in Concord fights prescription drug abuse – San Jose Mercury News
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Film screened in Concord fights prescription drug abuse
San Jose Mercury News CONCORD — Aaron Rubin, a quadriplegic unable to speak due to a prescription drug overdose, uses his fingers to communicate: one means yes, two means no. Does he regret taking that first pill? He raised his index finger. Did he think prescription drugs … Painkiller Abuse Hits New States |
Racine County to use state grant to fight prescription drug abuse – Journal Times
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Racine County to use state grant to fight prescription drug abuse
Journal Times RACINE COUNTY — As officials point to a growing heroin “epidemic,” the county is preparing to employ more than $ 100,000 in state assistance to combat prescription drug abuse, the root of many heroin users' habit. Racine is among eight counties … |
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse More Common Among Children – WDRB
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse more common among children – WDRB
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Prescription drug abuse more common among children
WDRB The goal is to expose children to the dangers of prescription drug abuse. Dr. Karen Shay, a child drug abuse activist, points out, "It's easier to try to get them to not use than to stop using." Dr. Shay knows the battle personally. … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Maine Officials Seek Solutions to Rampant Prescription Drug Abuse – MPBN News
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Maine Officials Seek Solutions to Rampant Prescription Drug Abuse
MPBN News Maine needs a stronger, better-coordinted statewide plan to fight prescription drug abuse. That's the reality that drew more than a hundred people to a daylong summit in Northport today. The gathering—put on by the Maine Attorney General's … Summit tackles prescription drug abuse epidemic in Maine Summit goal: Strong action on drug abuse Prescription Drug Abuse Focus of Attorney General's Summit |
FDA Refuses to Control 2nd-Most Abused Drug – AllGov
Drug Abuse: FDA Refuses to Control 2nd-Most Abused Drug – AllGov
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FDA Refuses to Control 2nd-Most Abused Drug
AllGov Drug–abuse opponents want to know why the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has dithered for a dozen years over tightening controls of hydrocodone, the nation's second-most abused medicine (behind oxycodone). It is the primary ingredient of Vicodin, … Abuse of narcotic hydrocodone on the rise Hydrocodone catching up to Oxycodone pain killer abuse nationwide |
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Drug Use on the Rise – Cyprus Mail
Drug Addiction: Drug use on the rise – Cyprus Mail
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Drug use on the rise
Cyprus Mail BOTH legal and illegal drug use is on the rise in Cyprus and the EU, police warned yesterday. Cyprus is seeing an upward tend for cannabis and cocaine use. Between 2006 and 2009, cannabis and cocaine users … UN: Sharp drops in opium, coca production in 2010 UN: Sharp drops in opium, coca production in 2010 |
Drug Addiction – Google News
Drug Addiction: Four-day cycle ride for addicts – BBC News
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Four-day cycle ride for addicts
BBC News Recovering drug addicts from Selby are tackling an 80 mile (128 km) bike ride to raise funds for the charity that has helped them overcome their addiction. The four men are hoping to complete a four-day cycle ride from the Solway Firth to the mouth of … |
Drug Addiction: Can the US Break Its Addiction to the War on Drugs? – Daily Camera
Drug Addiction: Can the US break its addiction to the War on Drugs? – Daily Camera
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Can the US break its addiction to the War on Drugs?
Daily Camera If our actions — an ineffective "war" that keeps prices high and attractive to criminals, but has done nothing to fight drug use — has a direct impact on the well-being of other countries, should we care? An estimated 34000 people have been killed in … Opinion: The failed war on drugs is what's packing California's prisons 40 years later, feelings mixed about War on Drugs Question of the Day: Is the "War on Drugs" Working? |
Drug Addiction – Google News
Drug Addiction: Recovering addict tells state commission it was easy for teens to find drugs … – Press of Atlantic City