Are You Living With an Addict? How to Tell When Someone Is Addicted to …
Are you living with an addict? How to tell when someone is addicted to …
Prescription drug abuse is on the rise in the United States. According to the most recent data gathered by Trust for America's Health, deaths involving prescription pills have quadrupled between 1999 and 2010, and more than 6 million people in the …
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DEA using texting to fight prescription drug abuse
And they hope pharmacy employees — or anyone, for that matter — will report such activity to its new prescription drug abuse tip line. The agency launched an initiative, TIP411, this week to allow the public to quickly and anonymously report …
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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs
Law enforcement and the health care industry are cracking down on prescription drug abuse, but are also seeing a corresponding surge in heroin use and deaths from overdoses. The number of people dying in Maine from a heroin overdose quadrupled from …
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