Evesham man found with prescription drugs, stun gun
Evesham man found with prescription drugs, stun gun
Filed under: prescription drug abuse
EVESHAM — A township man was charged with drug and weapons offenses Wednesday after officers stopped his vehicle and found unauthorized prescription drugs and a stun gun, police said Thursday. Vincenzo Nero, 19, was in a vehicle that was stopped …
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Jackson's mother says he denied prescription drug problem
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The mother of Michael Jackson testified on Monday in her wrongful death lawsuit against concert promoter AEG Live that the late pop star denied he was abusing prescription drugs when she confronted him in the years before his …
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Lynn Evans: Drop boxes part of prescription drug abuse battle
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The Centers for Disease Control calls it an epidemic. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety calls it Mississippi's No. 1 drug threat. Prescription drug abuse is killing men and women from all walks of life. The CDC reports that the deaths of …
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Problem of illegal sale of medication larger than St. Paul market
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Relatives suspect that the poison used in the 18-year-old's suicide came from a Hmong flea market, where hundreds of pounds of misbranded and prescription drugs were confiscated last month. Hang's suicide was one of several red flags that led …
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Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…