DEA: Home Medicine Cabinet Now Neighborhood Drug Dealer

Published September 16, 2010

DEA: Home medicine cabinet now neighborhood drug dealer
Federal drug enforcement agents are teaming up with the City of Austin to fight a growing prescription drug abuse problem in Central Texas. Prescription drugs are responsible for more overdose deaths than all the street drugs combined including cocaine, heroin, and meth. “Seventy percent of the children who abuse prescription drugs admit they got them from their parents’ medicine cabinet, a …
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