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Student Films Detail Dangers of Prescription Drug Abuse – Lincoln Times-News
Student films detail dangers of prescription drug abuse – Lincoln Times-News
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Student films detail dangers of prescription drug abuse
Lincoln Times-News Because the North Carolina Department of Justice noted prescription pills kill more people annually than any other illegal substance, and is specifically a problem among North Carolina teens, the agency is raising awareness about the drug epidemic by … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Marin parents who lost children to prescription drug abuse join new task force – Marin Independent Journal
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Marin parents who lost children to prescription drug abuse join new task force
Marin Independent Journal Three members of Marin County's new Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force know all too well how deadly the seemingly innocent bottles in the medicine chest can be. Britt Rosenmayr's son Jason, overdosed on heroin on Sept. 18, 2010, two days before his … |
Drug Abuse Soaring at Stuyvesant High: Insiders – New York Post
Drug abuse soaring at Stuyvesant High: insiders – New York Post
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Drug abuse soaring at Stuyvesant High: insiders
New York Post And it's not just pot. There have been seven drug-related 911 calls — two for narcotics sales — at the elite school's downtown address in the last two years, and sources say hallucinogens are also on the rise. “LSD is a big thing,” a teacher said … |
Drug abuse forums aim to educate, save lives – Poughkeepsie Journal
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Drug abuse forums aim to educate, save lives
Poughkeepsie Journal At a drug abuse awareness forum hosted by the Council on Addiction Prevention and Education, known as CAPE, and the Wappingers Central School District, Marcia Grant shares the story of her son Roger, who died of a drug overdose in 2011. / Courtesy … |
Drug Abuse Soaring at Stuyvesant High: Insiders – New York Post
Drug abuse soaring at Stuyvesant High: insiders – New York Post
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Drug abuse soaring at Stuyvesant High: insiders
New York Post And it's not just pot. There have been seven drug-related 911 calls — two for narcotics sales — at the elite school's downtown address in the last two years, and sources say hallucinogens are also on the rise. “LSD is a big thing,” a teacher said … |
Drug abuse forums aim to educate, save lives – Poughkeepsie Journal
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Drug abuse forums aim to educate, save lives
Poughkeepsie Journal At a drug abuse awareness forum hosted by the Council on Addiction Prevention and Education, known as CAPE, and the Wappingers Central School District, Marcia Grant shares the story of her son Roger, who died of a drug overdose in 2011. / Courtesy … |
Students Sought to Enter ‘Stop Rx Abuse’ Video Contest
Students sought to enter ‘Stop Rx Abuse’ video contest
BETHEL — North Carolina high school students can help fight prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths by entering a video contest sponsored by Attorney General Roy Cooper and the NC Department of Justice. Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results
Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse – WSAW
Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse – WSAW
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Take Back Youth Aims to Teach Parents, Teens About Drug Abuse
WSAW Addiction is a real issue here in our community, and unfortunately, much of it begins with teenage drug use. That's why the Alcohol and Other Drug Partnership is working to bring awareness to drug use among our youth. "I am a mother that helplessly … |
Prescription drug abuse task force to continue under de Blasio – SILive.com
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Prescription drug abuse task force to continue under de Blasio
SILive.com "I want to thank Mayor Bill de Blasio for continuing the Mayor's Task Force on Prescription Painkiller Abuse and I look forward to working with Elizabeth Glazer, the newly named Director of the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, as we tackle this … |
Hawaii Lawmakers Weigh Bills on Mental Health and Drug Abuse Services for at …
Hawaii lawmakers weigh bills on mental health and drug abuse services for at …
HONOLULU — Four of every five teens who appear in Judge R. Mark Browning's family court, he told Hawaii lawmakers Friday, abuse some sort of substance: alcohol, cocaine, heroin, gasoline, cold medicine or "a number of other things you've never heard …
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Smoky Mountain Appoints Leaders For Medicaid Mental Health, Substance …
Feb. 21, 2014. Smoky Mountain Center (SMC), Western North Carolina's largest managed care organization for publicly funded mental health, substance abuse and developmental disability services, is pleased to announce three major new appointments that …
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MVP settles after mental health parity law violations
The settlement also requires the health insurance plan — which has more than 500,000 members in the Albany region, Central New York and the Hudson Valley — to submit previously denied mental health and substance abuse treatment claims for …
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