Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

Lynn Evans: Drop boxes part of prescription drug abuse battle

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The Centers for Disease Control calls it an epidemic. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety calls it Mississippi's No. 1 drug threat. Prescription drug abuse is killing men and women from all walks of life. The CDC reports that the deaths of …
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Pilots Hide Prescription Drug Use, Create Deadly Trend

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He says pilots using drugs is nothing new but it's a problem that's getting worse as more medications are readily available. Prescription drugs and even over-the-counter medications like Benadryl have contributed to a large number of plane crashes in …
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Bitter Pills series: Prescription drugs fuel Fayetteville, region crime

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But none of those items likely fetched more money than two of the multiple prescription drugs the thieves took from his bedroom and bathroom: between 100 and 150 oxycodone tablets and about a half dozen skin patches called Fentanyl, an opiate …
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