Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions

Prescription Drug Abuse Reaches Epidemic Proportions
HOLYOKE, Mass. (WGGB) — Prescription drug abuse is reaching epidemic proportions. Here in Massachusetts, Governor Patrick has declared a statewide emergency to deal with drug abuse. The Holyoke Health Center is bustling with activity. It treats some …
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Special drug abuse committee heard last testimony
BOSTON (WWLP) – Efforts are being made to tackle the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. 22News spoke with non-abusing patients who are concerned with potentially limiting their access to painkillers. Opioid abuse and hundreds of overdose deaths prompted …
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DRUG ABUSE: Feds targeting pills that hospitalized students
The girl who shared her parents' prescription pills with a classmate at a Riverside school April 25 ingested hydrocodone, a painkiller that a Drug Enforcement Administration official says is the most-abused prescription drug and whose distribution the …
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NC report tackles prescription drug abuse
RALEIGH North Carolina should require medical providers to get routine training about prescription drug abuse and should improve monitoring of how controlled substances are dispensed, legislative researchers recommended this week in a report looking at …
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National Rx Drug Abuse Summit aims to counter opiate abuse epidemic in US
ATLANTA, Ga. — For three days, the nation's leading public health officials, politicians, law enforcement agents, drug treatment counselors, and others gathered in a downtown Atlanta hotel to discuss the national epidemic of opiate prescription drug …
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