Agency: Medicare refills strong drugs despite law
Agency: Medicare refills strong drugs despite law
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
Federal health officials have been touting better safety mechanisms as prescription drug abuse overdoses reach epidemic levels. Two Los Angeles doctors were recently charged with health care fraud after authorities said they prescribed controlled drugs …
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Benicia Police Department Taking Back Unwanted Prescription Drugs
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
The event offers citizens an opportunity to prevent pill abuse and theft by ridding their homes of potentially dangerous expired, unused, and unwanted prescription drugs. It is also an environmentally sensitive way to dispose of the drugs which are …
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Program aims to take back old prescription drugs
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
Prescription drug abuse is one of the nation's top public health and public safety issue, state and federal officials said Thursday as they announced a drug take-back program set for this weekend. The take-back will be Saturday at locations across Alabama.
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Drug abuse prevention program about to run out of funds
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"Prescription drugs were found in his body," Jamie said. Now the family works with a program called NOPE. It stand for Narcotics Overdose Prevention Education, and it's dedicated to preventing prescription drug abuse. "So that one kid doesn't have to …
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