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Boston Officials Announce Prescription Drug Take-Back Program to Combat Drug … – MassLive.com

Boston officials announce prescription drug take-back program to combat drug … – MassLive.com

Boston officials announce prescription drug take-back program to combat drug
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Senator Ed Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren flank Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh during a press conference on April 7, 2014 on prescription drug abuse at Boston City Hall. (Garrett Quinn, MassLive). Print · Garrett Quinn | [email protected] By …
Mass. to hold prescription 'Take Back Day' to curb abuseBoston.com
Drug Take-Back Day Aims To Stem AbuseWBUR
Massachusetts officials promote drug take-back dayWorcester Telegram
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Discussion on drug abuse in South Central Massachusetts scheduled for … – MassLive.com

Discussion on drug abuse in South Central Massachusetts scheduled for
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Since the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman in early February, the national spotlight on heroin and opioid drug abuse has grown hotter. Locally, state and local officials are talking openly about addiction in communities where residents and law …

Boston Officials Announce Prescription Drug Take-Back Program to Combat Drug … – MassLive.com

Boston officials announce prescription drug take-back program to combat drug … – MassLive.com

Boston officials announce prescription drug take-back program to combat drug
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Senator Ed Markey and Senator Elizabeth Warren flank Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh during a press conference on April 7, 2014 on prescription drug abuse at Boston City Hall. (Garrett Quinn, MassLive). Print · Garrett Quinn | [email protected] By …
Mass. to hold prescription 'Take Back Day' to curb abuseBoston.com
Officials urge residents to turn in unneeded prescription drugsBoston Globe
Mayor Walsh & Congresspeople Combat Prescription Drug Abuse with 'Take BostInno
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Drug abuse treatment clinic asked to close doors – WCYB


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Drug abuse treatment clinic asked to close doors
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"The clinic is in violation of zoning ordinance because it's a substance abuse clinic," Phillips said. "Those clinics are only allowed in the M-1 zone, which is light industrial but the location of the clinic is in the B-3 arterial business district

Mass. to Hold Prescription ‘Take Back Day’ to Curb Abuse – Boston.com

Mass. to hold prescription ‘Take Back Day’ to curb abuse – Boston.com

Mass. to hold prescription 'Take Back Day' to curb abuse
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More than 15 million people abuse prescription drugs, more than the combined number who reported abusing cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants and heroin, according to the advocacy organization Foundation for a Drug-Free World. The Centers for Disease …
Officials urge residents to turn in unneeded prescription drugsBoston Globe
Mayor Walsh & Congresspeople Combat Prescription Drug Abuse with 'Take BostInno
State Officials Promote National Prescription Drug Take-Back DayPatch.com
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RI has tools to spot prescription drug abusers, but few prescribers use them – The Providence Journal

RI has tools to spot prescription drug abusers, but few prescribers use them
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The single most powerful tool currently available to combat prescriptiondrug fraud is seldom used by the majority of Rhode Island physicians and others licensed to prescribe controlled substances. The state prescription drug monitoring program, or PMP

Healthcare Reform Brings Expansion to Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry – Insurance Journal

Healthcare Reform Brings Expansion to Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry – Insurance Journal


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Healthcare Reform Brings Expansion to Drug & Alcohol Treatment Industry
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Employment of substance abuse and behavioral disorder counselors is also projected to grow by 31 percent from 2012 to 2022, much faster than the average for all occupations, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The forecasted growth is good

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Addressing teen drug use – Claremore Daily Progress

Addressing teen drug use
Claremore Daily Progress
“The Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (ODMHSAS) makes available statistics of services provided across the state,” he said. “A review of that information led me to search out how many adolescents received treatment …

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“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes

Wayne State Receives $1.7 Million NIH Grant to Discover Novel Treatments for Methamphetamine-Abuse

Wayne State Receives .7 Million NIH Grant to Discover Novel Treatments for Methamphetamine-Abuse
A Wayne State University professor recently received a nearly $ 1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to explore whether proteasome and parkin — two components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system — are potential pharmaceutical drug targets that can be manipulated to promote survival and recovery of dopaminergic terminals after binge and … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

 

.7 million NIH grant to Wayne State to discover treatments for methamphetamine-abuse
( Wayne State University – Office of the Vice President for Research ) A Wayne State University professor recently received a nearly $ 1.7 million grant from the National Institutes of Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health to explore whether proteasome and parkin — two components of the ubiquitin-proteasome system — are potential pharmaceutical drug targets that can be manipulated to … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Okla. a Leader in Prescription Drug Addiction – Norman Transcript

Okla. a leader in prescription drug addiction – Norman Transcript

Okla. a leader in prescription drug addiction
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The eight deaths on Moore's watch, and others like them, expose troubling gaps in the state's system for combating an epidemic that has seen Oklahoma surge to near the top of national rankings for prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths. In 2012 …

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“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes


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"National Take-Back Day": Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription
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As “National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day” edges closer, (April 26, 2014), it's a good opportunity to emphasize the importance of this day for helping to address an ongoing source of addiction, misuse, and trafficking of prescription medications.
Klobuchar presses DEA to implement law to help curb prescription drug abuseCoon Rapids ECM Publishers
Authorities ready for prescription drug takeback dayhays Post
Drug Take-Back Day set in EskyEscanaba Daily Press
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