Students Told Prescription Drug Abuse Has No Good Outcome

Students told prescription drug abuse has no good outcome

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Darrin Phegley / The Gleaner Dr. Karen Shay, a Morehead, Ky. dentist, whose daughter, Sarah, died from a prescription drug overdose in 2006, tells her story to over 1,000 Henderson County High School 9th and 10th graders during an assembly led by …
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Task Force To Make Recommendations On Prescription Drug Abuse And Babies

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He floated the idea of creating criminal immunity for pregnant women who seek treatment for their prescription drug abuse. “If I'm sitting there evaluating a medical problem, and I think there's criminal implications for whatever medical problem I have …
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Treating addiction as a public health issue, not a crime

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The drugs of choice for an increasing number of Americans are prescription painkillers. Nowhere is the problem more apparent than Houston, where the renowned medical center area has become “a national hotspot for prescription drug abuse,” according to …
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