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May 11 2012

Local police stations will be drug disposal sites – MetroWest Daily News

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Local police stations will be drug disposal sites
MetroWest Daily News
Plans for distributing the receptacles for unused or expired prescription medication were announced today by Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office purchased the units through drug forfeiture funds, …

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Nassau Conference Focuses On Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
CBS Local
BETHPAGE, NY (CBSNewYork) – A conference held in Nassau County on Friday focused on the problem of young people abusing prescription drugs. Studies show that 4.5 million American children above the age of 12 have abused prescription drugs, …

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May 11 2012

Local police stations will be drug disposal sites – MetroWest Daily News

Category: Prescription — Prescription Search @ 1:30 pm

Local police stations will be drug disposal sites
MetroWest Daily News
Plans for distributing the receptacles for unused or expired prescription medication were announced today by Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. The Middlesex District Attorney's Office purchased the units through drug forfeiture funds, …

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Nassau Conference Focuses On Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
CBS Local
BETHPAGE, NY (CBSNewYork) – A conference held in Nassau County on Friday focused on the problem of young people abusing prescription drugs. Studies show that 4.5 million American children above the age of 12 have abused prescription drugs, …

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May 11 2012

Haslam signs Prescription Drug Bill – WBIR-TV

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Haslam signs Prescription Drug Bill
WBIR-TV
Governor Bill Haslam was at the Anderson County Courthouse on Friday to sign the Prescription Drug Bill into law. Haslam says the law will help curb a problem he says is an epidemic. The bill, among other things, requires doctors and pharmacies to …
Haslam signs bill targeting doctor-shopping, pill abuseKnoxville News Sentinel

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The Saginaw News – MLive.com

Glastonbury Collects 206 Pounds Of Prescription Drugs
Hartford Courant
The police department collected 206 potentially dangerous expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs during this year's National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. Overall, the Drug Enforcement Administration collected 276 tons of drugs at 5659 …
D.A. Leone and North Reading Police Address the Dangers of Unused Prescription …Patch.com
65 pounds of prescription medication collected in Mount Pleasant; 16 in Bay CityThe Saginaw News – MLive.com
Jackson County collects more than 140 pounds of prescription drugs during take …The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com
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US consumes 80% of the world's pain pills as prescription drug abuse epidemic …
CBS 21
By Michael Zennie Americans consume 80 percent of the world's supply of painkillers — more than 110 tons of pure, addictive opiates every year — as the country's prescription drug abuse epidemic explodes. That's enough drugs to give every single …

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May 11 2012

Prescription drug puzzle: Why and how you should get rid of expired or … – MLive.com

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Prescription drug puzzle: Why and how you should get rid of expired or …
MLive.com
By Meegan Holland | mholland@mlive.com File Photo | The Associated PressMany homes have unused, leftover or expired prescription drugs. Read why you should get rid of them. The Michigan State Police announcement that they took in 693 pounds of …
D.A. Leone and North Reading Police Address the Dangers of Unused Prescription …Patch.com
65 pounds of prescription medication collected in Mount Pleasant; 16 in Bay CityThe Saginaw News – MLive.com
Jackson County collects more than 140 pounds of prescription drugs during take …The Jackson Citizen Patriot – MLive.com
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People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications
Huffington Post
Communities have been struggling to deal with not only the mortality associated with this epidemic, but also the increase in crime related to prescription drug trafficking and the rapidly-increasing number of patients needing substance abuse treatment.

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May 10 2012

Teen prescription drug abuse rising in Orange County – abc7.com

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Teen prescription drug abuse rising in Orange County
abc7.com
Mark Melkonian, a Dana Hills High School athlete, died from a prescription drug overdose at age 17. "That's what the problem is, they don't expect the consequences," Costa said. "They don't think it's going to happen to them.

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The prescription drugs involved in more overdose deaths than cocaine and …
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The group received 90 percent of its $ 5 million in funding in 2010 from the drug and medical-device industry, ProPublica found, and its guides for patients, journalists and policymakers had played down the risks associated with opioid painkillers while …
US Senate probes painkiller makers, allied groupsChicago Tribune

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Student accused of sharing prescription drugs with classmates
KSLA-TV
Police are investigating a student for allegedly bringing prescription drugs to school to share with other students. Ashdown, Arkansas Police Chief Doyle Crouch says the incident happened at Ashdown Junior High School. Crouch says a sixth grade student …

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May 09 2012

Police target prescription drug abuse – Fox11online.com

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Police target prescription drug abuse
Fox11online.com
And they say the danger lies in people's perception of it – that prescription drugs aren't on the same destructive level as street drugs. "About 70 percent of every patient the emergency department sees are related to some sort of painful condition," …

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Drug Task Force Holds Prescription Take Back Day
WYTV
The Northeast Ohio Law Enforcement Task Force collected prescription drugs on Wednesday as part of "Operation: Empty Medicine Cabinet." The officers accepted unused or expired drugs in original containers. The officers will count the medications and …

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May 09 2012

New Orleans prescription drug ring suspects have bond set – NOLA.com

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New Orleans prescription drug ring suspects have bond set
NOLA.com
By John Simerman, The Times-Picayune A magistrate commissioner has set bail at $ 180000 for Carlton Charles, one of five people busted this week in an alleged New Orleans-based prescription drug ring that netted several millions of dollars over a decade …
District attorney says prescription drug bust biggest in his termWWL

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Milton Man Accused of Carrying Prescription Drugs in Hingham
Patch.com
By Tony Catinella A Milton man will appear back in court in August after he was arrested and charged with possession of two different prescription drugs in Hingham last weekend. After Hingham Police stopped Maull's green Nissan Altima for speeding on …

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Local Voices, May. 09
Chicago Tribune
If drug companies made things more affordable for the uninsured, then maybe more people would be able to be helped. — Gloria Porter, Yorkville Prescription-drug abuse A recent survey underscores the challenges public health and law-enforcement …

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May 09 2012

New drug guidelines bring hope – Chillicothe Gazette

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New drug guidelines bring hope
Chillicothe Gazette
We've often said the fight against abuse of prescription drugs would be one everyone would have to join in. Many people agree addiction and abuse have caused the problem that plagues Ohio and many other states. Throughout the state, medical …
State issues guidelines to ERs aimed to combat abuse of painkillersThe-News-Leader
Emergency rooms in Ohio agree to tighten up rules on doling out painkillersPlain Dealer
Ohio Cracking Down On Prescription Pain KillersWTAP-TV
Middletown Journal -Toledo Blade
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