Street Pharm Crisis: State Battles Deadly Prescription Addictions

Drug Abuse Methadone: Street pharm crisis: State battles deadly prescription addictions
This is the first in a two-part series that looks at New Mexico’s emerging problem with prescription-drug abuse. Coming Tuesday: Prescriptions for opioid painkillers would get greater scrutiny from doctors and pharmacists under proposals before the state’s pharmacy and medical boards this summer.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Scientists Focus Innovations to Reduce Deaths From Prescription Drug Abuse
PISGAH FOREST, N.C., May 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Pisgah Laboratories, Inc. ( www.pisgahlabs.com ) received Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office ( www.uspto.gov ) for …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Toddler swallows methadone, mom arrested
A toddler is recovering at a St. Petersburg hospital after swallowing methadone while in his mother's care, police say.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Series examines growing drug issue
More people died from prescription drug overdoses in New Hampshire last year than were killed in car accidents. The percentage of people seeking state-funded treatment for addiction to prescription drugs increased 60 percent in just two years, from 2008-10. In 2010, it wasn’t heroin causing the most overdose deaths in New Hampshire. Methadone and oxycodone were the leading killers, according to …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: STOP hosts training on drug abuse
JULIA ROBERTS GOAD Staff Writer WILLIAMSON – Those who are are the front line of the war on drugs received training in Williamson to help them fight that battle. The STOP Coalition brought T…
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