Drug Abuse: Parenting Seminar to Discuss Prescription Drug Abuse

Parenting seminar to discuss prescription drug abuse
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MERIDIAN — Prescription drug abuse is a growing public health concern. With the increasing number of pain killers prescribed, easy access to these drugs is a factor in the increase in abuse levels in recent years.
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Leaders address infant health and prescription drug abuse
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The fight to save the youngest victims of pre-scription drug abuse gained mo-mentum in 2012 and must continue in order to reverse the epidemic, said Dixie Morgese, executive director of Healthy Start Coalition of Volusia and Flagler Counties.
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Prescription drug abuse destroys lives with death and crime
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Lackawanna County Coroner Tim Rowland gauges the area's prescription drug abuse problem by how often he has to ask a family to identify the body of someone who overdosed.
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Programs in place to help curb growing problem of prescription drug abuse
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The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified prescription drug abuse as a national epidemic.
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