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Duval: Mental Health, Substance Abuse Are Serious Problems [VIDEO]
Duval: Mental Health, Substance Abuse are Serious Problems [VIDEO]
Some of those issues, he noted, included the standard theft, drug activity, and petty crimes that are expected in a city the size of Concord. But Duval also focused on a more recent problem – mental health and substance issues that are plaguing the … Read more on Patch.com
A look inside prescription drug abuse in the workplace (Video)
Senior Reporter Angela Gonzales talks about prescription drug abuse in the workplace with two officials from Community Bridges Inc., a Phoenix substance abuse treatment provider. The March 22 edition of the Phoenix Business Journal takes an in-depth … Read more on Phoenix Business Journal (blog)
NC DOJ sponsors student video contest to fight prescription drug abuse
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — North Carolina high school students are being given an opportunity to fight prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths by entering a video contest sponsored by Attorney General Roy Cooper and the N.C. Department of Justice. Read more on myfox8.com
Aetna Study Shows Decrease in Prescription Drug Misuse, Waste and Abuse Through Increased Monitoring
Aetna Study Shows Decrease in Prescription Drug Misuse, Waste and Abuse Through Increased Monitoring
Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic in the United States with about 2.4 million Americans struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers known as opioids. According to the CDC, opioid addiction is a leading cause of death in the United States and adds $ 72.5 billion in expense to the health care system each year.1 A recent study of Aetna’s programs designed to address prescription drug … Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Barrow’s drug abuse problem; Obama’s disingenuous rhetoric
Unfortunately, one of the values that currently appears to define too much of Barrow County is a culture of drug and substance abuse . Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Aetna Study Shows Decrease in Prescription Drug Misuse, Waste and Abuse Through Increased Monitoring
Aetna Study Shows Decrease in Prescription Drug Misuse, Waste and Abuse Through Increased Monitoring
Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic in the United States with about 2.4 million Americans struggling with addiction to prescription painkillers known as opioids. According to the CDC, opioid addiction is a leading cause of death in the United States and adds $ 72.5 billion in expense to the health care system each year.1 A recent study of Aetna’s programs designed to address prescription drug … Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Barrow’s drug abuse problem; Obama’s disingenuous rhetoric
Unfortunately, one of the values that currently appears to define too much of Barrow County is a culture of drug and substance abuse . Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
‘Teen Mom 2’ Star Jenelle Evans in Rehab for Drug Abuse
‘Teen Mom 2’ star Jenelle Evans in rehab for drug abuse
LOS ANGELES, March 7 (UPI) — Jenelle Evans is undergoing treatment for drug abuse at a North Carolina rehab, an attorney for the “Teen Mom 2” star told E! News Thursday. Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
‘ Drug abuse in Punjab “very serious” problem’
New Delhi, March 5 — Terming the prevailing trans-border drug smuggling and abuse in Punjab as a “very serious” problem, the director general of Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) Rajiv Mehta on Tuesday said that India and Pakistan were jointly working on strategies to effectively check the menace. It is notable to mention here that Punjab came to media limelight last year when then AICC general … Drug Abuse – Yahoo! News Search Results
Prescription Drug Abuse Skyrocketing in Teens – abc11.com
Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in teens – abc11.com
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Prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in teens
abc11.com RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — North Carolina health and law enforcement officials say they're concerned about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse in young people. Police say teens are abusing many prescriptions drugs including painkillers like … |
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Drug Abuse: State inmate tells Alabama Drug Abuse Task Force to stop addiction before it … – al.com (blog)
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State inmate tells Alabama Drug Abuse Task Force to stop addiction before it …
al.com (blog) MONTGOMERY, Alabama —- A state inmate serving a 15-year sentence for trafficking and manufacturing methamphetamine told the Alabama Drug Abuse Task Force to focus prevention at schools, “the stadium on Friday night” and other places where young … Drug Task Force struggles to define its mission |
Drug Abuse: Summit Focuses on Prescription Drug Abuse – WALA-TV FOX10
Drug Abuse: Summit focuses on prescription drug abuse – WALA-TV FOX10
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Summit focuses on prescription drug abuse
WALA-TV FOX10 Thursday, state and local officials held a prescription drug abuse summit to heighten awareness about the crime and find ways to put a stop to it. Millie Shamburger works with students in Baldwin County and said she deals with students battling drug … |
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Drug Abuse: Prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in teens – abc11.com
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Prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in teens
abc11.com RALEIGH, N.C. (WTVD) — North Carolina health and law enforcement officials say they're concerned about the growing problem of prescription drug abuse in young people. Police say teens are abusing many prescriptions drugs including painkillers like … |
Drug Abuse – Google News
Drug Abuse: Officials target prescription drug abuse at Mobile summit – al.com (blog)