Meeting Targets Prescription Drug Abuse

Published January 31, 2014

Meeting targets prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

COLUMBUS — Polk County community leaders will come together today to discuss the growing problem of prescription drug abuse, addiction to pain medication and unintentional drug overdose. The dinner meeting will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. at the …
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Efforts underway to fight epidemic of prescription painkiller abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

Every day, 45 Americans die from an overdose of prescription pain medication. Prescription drug abuse now ranks as the fastest growing drug problem in the United States. More people die from prescription drug overdoses than from traffic-related deaths …
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Thorns to employer for docking robbery victim's pay

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

The parents who testified put painful details of their lives in the public eye in hopes of helping others by legalizing a drug. Telling their stories took … Pennsylvania ranks ninth nationally in terms of prescription drug abuse. And 70 percent of …
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