Overdose Deaths From Prescription Drug Abuse Skyrocketing in Southwestern …

Published January 25, 2014

Overdose deaths from prescription drug abuse skyrocketing in southwestern …
“I think we're in a culture in which everything gets fixed — there is no level of uncomfortableness that we think we should have to endure,” said Elaine Stano, treatment specialist with the Fayette County Drug and Alcohol Commission, referring to the …
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Police roundup
The charges stem from the investigation of an incident that occurred in July involving a heroin overdose. Oliver was arraigned in Williamson Town Court and committed to Wayne County Jail on $ 500 cash bail or $ 1,000 bond. She is to appear back in court …
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Twin Cities heroin, painkiller deaths surged in first half of 2013
The pace of overdose deaths from heroin and prescription pain medicine abuse rose in the Twin Cities in the first part of last year, even as a battle raged to slow the deadly epidemic. That's the finding of … Admissions to Minneapolis and St. Paul …
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WNC communities tackle prescription drug problem
ASHEVILLE — Polk County is the latest Western North Carolina community to launch an initiative aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse and deaths from overdose, a problem that has hit rural areas across the region. Prescription drug abuse is the …
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Legal Medications are killing US SOLDIERS — Legal Medications are killing US SOLDIERS, The number of deaths and hospitalizations caused by prescription drugs has risen precipitously in the past decade,…

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