Help for the next generation
Help for the next generation
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… Health at Marquette General Health System, said that 2007 program was for males and females, but in 2010, a program was started at MGHS to help pregnant women with an opioid addiction caused predominantly by the abuse of prescription drugs.
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Doctor charged in prescription drug deaths
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The Baldi case comes amid increasing national concern about abuse of narcotic painkillers and other prescription drugs. The state medical examiner's office said last year that drug overdose deaths have increased more than twelvefold in the past decade.
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Prescription for Addiction Part 3: Understanding Addiction
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Understanding the people as well as the pills is one way Saskatchewan is trying to address what RCMP call the “rampant” problem of prescription drug abuse in our province. In part two of the series “Prescription for Addiction”, we looked at where the …
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Report: County is near top for drug abuse
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It came as no surprise to Jackson County's narcotics officers and addiction treatment specialists that the region ranks high in Oregon in meth and prescription drug abuse. The numbers come from a report released this week by the Oregon High Intensity …
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