Prescription Drug Deaths Rise With Opioid Sales

Published December 5, 2013

Prescription Drug Deaths Rise With Opioid Sales
The CDC, DEA, and other agencies are working with state governments to address 3 key drivers of the prescription drug overdose problem: increased opioid prescribing; specific providers accounting for most of the inappropriate prescribing; and high-risk …
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Prescription drug abuse and teens
GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. Prescription drug and heroin abuse have become big problems among kids and teens. This is the reason that the sheriff's office, along with Crime Stoppers, is holding 3 different classes to help educate parents and their kids about …
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Special Report: Overcoming Addiction
Unfortunately, it didn't." By the time he was thirty Richie said he'd overdosed on cocaine twice. At times homeless, at 31 and back in jail again facing fifteen years because of drugs including methamphetamines and prescription pill abuse, Richie said …
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