New Database Helps Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse

Published April 4, 2013

New Database Helps Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse – GLEN ROCK — As part of an effort to keep prescription drugs out of the hands of abusers, the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs began a database t…

Eastern Kentucky group holding national prescription drug abuse summit this week

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Hannah Eaton says she never saw her father so devastated as when he lost his younger brother to a drug overdose three years ago. “Everyone I know has been affected by” prescription drug abuse, said Eaton, 18, a senior at Rockcastle County High School …
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I-STOP database will halt prescription drug abuse in New York, lawmakers say

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“Just in 2012, we're buying more prescription drugs, controlled substances, than we are crack cocaine and powder cocaine in Rockland,” he said. Local addiction treatment centers report that more than 60 percent of the patients they see in Westchester …
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