Prescription Drug Abuse Linked to Heroin Use

Prescription drug abuse linked to heroin use
TAUNTON , MA- According to U.S. representative Joe Kennedy, four out of five heroin users will tell you that their addiction started with prescription drugs. With no questions asked, over 200 pounds of drugs were dropped off at Taunton 's police …
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Prescription drug use, abuse
Regulators are tightening prescription protocols; the governor pledged an additional $ 20 million to drug treatment programs; and he banned the sale in the state of Zohydro, a powerful new form of the opioid hydrocodone, with a high danger of abuse.
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Parents gather in Hillsdale to learn from father of drug addict
HILLSDALE – Before David Sheff, a journalist and author, stepped on the Pascack Valley High School stage to discuss his son's journey through drug addiction and rehabilitation, a Woodcliff Lake mother approached him in a small office in the school.
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