Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

Oklahoma Tackles the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic
Everyone knows someone who has been seriously affected by prescription drug abuse. Yet, when a report issued late last year revealed that the leading cause of accidental death in the United States is drug overdose — primarily from prescription drugs …
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COMPLETE COVERAGE: National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit
ATLANTA, Ga. (WYMT)-Below you will find complete coverage of the National Prescription Drug Abuse Summit. WYMT’s Tanner Hesterberg and Matthew Rand are at the summit and will bring you coverage of the event …
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Congressman Hal Rogers leads the fight to stop prescription drug abuse
Today Congressman Hal Rogers is leading a delegation of Congressmen, healthcare experts, and nationally known spokespersons, to fight a major epidemic of Americans addicted to prescription drugs at the UNITE National Summit on Drug Abuse this week.
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Saturday Is National Drug Take-Back Day
Family and friends are the source for access to over half of all abused prescription drugs, and in many of those cases users simply take the drugs from other people's medicine cabinets, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration noted in a news release. In …
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Just say yes? The rise of 'study drugs' in college
"Our biggest concern … is the increase we have observed in this behavior over the past decade," says Sean McCabe, research associate professor at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center. FDA warns of fake Adderall sold online.
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