The government is right to crack down on prescription opioid abuse

The government is right to crack down on prescription opioid abuse
Mr. Holder usefully, if implicitly, rejected this criticism, noting that increased heroin abuse is a “symptom of the significant increase in prescription drug abuse that we’ve seen over the past decade” — in other words, addicts began turning to …
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Prescription Drug Abuse Increases Drastically in 20 Years: Painkiller Use Stabilizes
After an increase of opioid prescriptions that went from 76 million to 210 million over a 20-year span, researchers believe that the prescriptions and consumption of these painkillers have finally stabilized. Like Us on Facebook The results …
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Groups vying for money for youth programs to prevent drug abuse
HARLAN, Ky. (WYMT) – Four years after receiving half a million dollars to go towards programs to prevent drug abuse among children, the Harlan County Fiscal Court still has not decided how to spend it. The court system awarded the money in 2010 from two …
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RI Lawmakers Mull New Drug Abuse, Overdose Bills
He also wants insurers in the state to cover Suboxone and buprenorphine, which are used to treat addiction to opioids like OxyContin, or heroin. And he also wants health care providers to provide patients with substance abuse problems with a treatment …
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Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Joe Avellone maintains focus on substance …
As part of his ongoing focus on the growing substance abuse problem in Massachusetts, Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Joe Avellone released a video this week shining further light on the topic. In the two-minute video released online, two people who …
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