Beshear Claims Progress on Prescription Drug Abuse

Beshear claims progress on prescription drug abuse

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Kentucky officials reported more progress Thursday in fighting prescription drug abuse, pointing to a decline in overdose deaths and a drop off in doses for commonly abused painkillers in the year since a new state law took aim at the chronic problem …
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Society daily 26.07.13

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Susan Fleisher, executive director of the National Organisation for Foetal Alcohol Syndrome, on how she is inspired by her adopted daughter's health problem • Universities are … A video put together by the Nuffield Trust in which health and political …
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Community forum on heroin crisis draws an overflow crowd

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Another mother told of the pain of losing her daughter to a heroin overdose. Treatment specialists shed light on the extent of the problem and the physical and psychological effects of heroin addiction. Law enforcement officers told of their efforts to …
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