Mangano Advances Initiatives to Address Prescription Drug Abuse

Published July 29, 2013

Mangano Advances Initiatives To Address Prescription Drug Abuse – Following a nearly year-long study on the impact of prescription drug abuse in Nassau, County Executive Edward P. Mangano today accepted the Nassau County Pr…

Painkillers pose big risk for addiction

Filed under: drug addiction statistics

In Mississippi, the number of accidental drug overdose deaths has increased 10-fold since 1990. Dr. Steven Demetropoulos, president of the Mississippi State Medical … Dr. Jane Ballantyne, professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the …
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Patrol: Prescription drug seizures up

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1 and June 30, according to Ohio Highway Patrol statistics. Ohio Highway Patrol launched 2,685 felony-level cases during the first half of 2013, and 46 percent of those involved drugs. Narcotics cases were significantly higher than any other felony …
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