Prescription Drugs Kill One Person Every 19 Minutes
Prescription drugs kill one person every 19 minutes – The Quiet Epidemic: prescription drug abuse destroys millions of lives Nancy Rosen-Cohen The Baltimore Sun There isn’t much attention paid to prescription dr…
Local top cops contemplate solutions to heroin surge
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Hauge called the meeting after having identified heroin “as the next wave in substance abuse,” and a problem that, following similar spikes he'd seen with crack cocaine, meth and prescription drugs, will require a unified effort of community leaders to …
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Paterson man arrested for selling drugs at substance abuse treatment center
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PATERSON — Police arrested a 55-year-old man outside a drug-treatment center and charged him with distributing prescription medication inside the facility, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. Luis Pou was busted at the Straight & Narrow complex, …
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Area Drug Enforcers Brace for Heroin Return
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Investigators said they link the comeback to a statewide prescription pill abuse problem. Those on the front lines said today's drug … We see the younger males that are usually drawn to heroin right now, really the high school and college aged …
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