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…

Bitter Pills series: More prescription drug addicts turning to heroin

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Of people who tried heroin for the first time between 2008 and 2010, 81 percent previously had abused prescription drugs, according to a study by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. Cumberland County District Attorney …
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Bitter Pills series: Finding ways to combat the growing prescription drug …

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Four years ago, Wilkes County had one of the highest overdose rates in the country, four times the North Carolina average. From 2007 to 2009, state records show, overdoses killed more people in Wilkes County than car wrecks. Almost all of the overdoses …
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Prescription drugs

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

More people died in Utah last year of prescription drug overdoses than in traffic accidents, according to police and doctors who treat substance abuse patients. According to the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health's annual report for …
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