Drug Abuse: Funding for Drug-Abuse Database Is in Doubt – Sun-Sentinel
Funding for drug-abuse database is in doubt – Sun-Sentinel
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Funding for drug–abuse database is in doubt
Sun-Sentinel TALLAHASSEE — Backers of a year-old drug database widely heralded as a key to stopping the state's prescription-drug–abuse problems said the project has nearly run out of money, triggering concerns about the survival of a program that Gov. Rick Scott … |
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System Cuts Prescription Drug Abuse – Ivanhoe
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System Cuts Prescription Drug Abuse
Ivanhoe (Ivanhoe Newswire) – PharmaNet, a centralized prescription network that has provided real-time information to pharmacists in British Columbia since July 1995, has resulted in a dramatic decline in prescription drug abuse, specifically for opioid … |
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Report: Amtrak dangerously overlooking drug and alcohol use by employees – eTurboNews
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Report: Amtrak dangerously overlooking drug and alcohol use by employees
eTurboNews A new report blasts Amtrak, the nation's largest passenger rail carrier, for dangerously overlooking drug and alcohol use by its employees. The report released Thursday, an internal audit by Amtrak's Office of Inspector General, says drug and alcohol … Amtrak IG criticizes laxity in curbing drugs Report: Amtrak employees failing drug, alcohol tests at alarming rate Amtrak workers failing drug tests more often |
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MEGASTAR MAMMOOTTY IN ANTI DRUG SHORTFILM
Actor Mammootty said here on Thursday that he would try to avoid doing film scenes that tended to promote the use of liquor and drugs. The actor was speaking to presspersons after Chief Minister Oommen Chandy released a 40-second film—’Say No to Drinks; Say No to Drugs’—made by him as part of a campaign by the Excise Department. “I am trying my best. I will,” Mr. Mammootty said, adding that the situations in some films required scenes where characters tended to endorse drinking. Mr. Mammootty contributed the short film to the campaign free of charge, as promised on a previous occasion. He urged that schools and their neighbourhoods should be free of drugs and liquor. Intoxication increased criminal tendencies, he said. The Chief Minister said he had written to school authorities that the campaign against the use of liquor and drug abuse should begin from the schools. Stringent action would be taken against sale of liquor and drugs near schools. Excise Minister K. Babu said the film would be screened in schools and theatres. Clubs had been formed in schools to campaign against the use of liquor and drugs and the State-level inauguration of their functioning would be held shortly, he added. The Minister said the sale of liquor from the beverages corporation outlets had gone up during the Onam festival because the Excise Department had strongly cracked down on the sale of illicit liquor.