Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Rise in Heroin Use
Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
The likelihood that many prescription-drug abusers will switch to heroin because it is much cheaper is widely accepted among addiction treatment professionals and law enforcement officials. Justice Department officials reject any direct linkage …
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Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Sen. Markey to discuss drug abuse crisis in Mass.
HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is planning to join Congressman Richard Neal and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse to discuss heroin and prescription drug abuse in western Massachusetts. Markey is planning to speak on what he’s calling …
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Prescription drug abuse growing among Indians
Prescription drug abuse is growing in India and is a serious problem in South Asia, according to a UN report which said drugs enter the region’s illicit markets through various channels, being diverted from India’s pharma industry and smuggled from …
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Program to prevent drug abuse expands
Three drug-prevention Reality Tours are being added to the three tours in Westmoreland County in an effort to educate and forewarn parents and youths, said the director of the Butler County-based program. Program founder Norma Norris, executive …
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Video contest for high school, middle school students to fight drug use
SHEBOYGAN COUNTY, WI (WHBL) – A two-pronged effort to raise awareness among high schoolers and middle schoolers in Sheboygan County about addictions and drugs gets underway Friday. Captain Jim Veeser of the Sheboygan Police Department …
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