Prescription Drug Abuse in Kentucky

Published November 17, 2012

Prescription Drug Abuse in Kentucky – A brief video featuring the stories of Sarah Shay and Savannah Kissick, two girls from Morehead, Ky. who died of prescription drug overdoses. (Music: Kevin MacLeod)

MSP condemns 'funding drug addiction'

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives through Freedom of Information reveal that in 2010/11 and 2011/12 health boards have spent £3.9 million dispensing 22.2 million items to addicts to help them take drugs. These ranged from spoons to aid …
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EMass has most drug-caused ER visits in U.S.

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

BOSTON (State House News Service) – Abuse of illicit drugs, including heroin, again posed a significant public health problem in Massachusetts last year with eastern Massachusetts posting a rate of emergency room visits involving drugs higher than that …
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OxyContin prescriptions rose at border when taken off US market: study

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

Due to its high risk of addiction, OxyContin manufacturer Purdue Pharma took the drug off the U.S. market in August 2010, and replaced it with OxyNEO, a new formula that is considered tamper-resistant and therefore less prone to abuse. OxyContin was …
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