Teenage Drug Addict Died in Cell While Police Custody Office

Teenage drug addict died in cell while police custody office – Sheriff blasts police procedures and member of staff after Fatal Accident Inquiry into death of Kristoffer Batt at Tayside Police HQ in 2007. From the article at news.stv.tv

Prescription drug abuse program expands

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An Illinois medicine-monitoring program has joined a national data-sharing network to help prevent prescription drug abuse. The Department of Human Services will link its prescription monitoring program to a National Association of Boards of Pharmacy …
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OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases

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Your article has been sent. WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Efforts to make OxyContin harder to abuse have succeeded in Vermont, the top state police drug investigator says, but one notable result has been addicts switching to an older scourge: heroin.
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Drug, alcohol abuse tied to early-life strokes

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Strokes are often thought of as a condition of the elderly, but researchers said long-term changes in the heart, arteries or and blood as a result of drug abuse or heavy drinking may put users at higher-than-average risk earlier in life. "Substance …
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