Drug Abuse: Law Enforcement Struggles to Control Rising Prescription Drug Abuse – Morganton News Herald

Law enforcement struggles to control rising prescription drug abuse – Morganton News Herald
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Law enforcement struggles to control rising prescription drug abuse
Morganton News Herald
North Carolinians searching for answers to the state's growing drug abuse problem won't find what they're looking for in the colloquial meth lab or opium den. According to the most recent research published by the governor's crime commission in Raleigh
Addicts are not low-lifesPittsburgh Post Gazette
White House Drug Czar, Local Officials Address Prescription Drug AbusePatch.com
Legal Opioids: An Octopus of a ProblemPharmacy Times
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Bluegrass Beacon – A Better Response to Drug Abuse: ‘Scalpel, Please’ – SurfKY News
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Bluegrass Beacon – A Better Response to Drug Abuse: 'Scalpel, Please'
SurfKY News
FRANKFORT, KY (8/19/12) – Politicians in Frankfort who still believe that government edicts can somehow or other deliver the commonwealth from the scourge of prescription drug abuse are once again approaching the issue with a butcher knife instead of a
Pill pain: Some doctors see law targeting abuse as excessive and confusingThe Courier-Journal

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Westford schools taking aim at substance abuse – The Sun
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Westford schools taking aim at substance abuse
The Sun
WESTFORD — School and town officials are hoping to launch a new effort to combat what they see as a rise in the number of Westford youth who are abusing drugs. Superintendent of Schools Everett "Bill" Olsen Jr. unveiled a plan at last week's School

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Ex-drug addict now helps reunite families – USA TODAY
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Ex-drug addict now helps reunite families
USA TODAY
She can recall being so addicted to drugs that she became a prostitute and a thief. She can talk matter-of-factly about being sexually abused as a child, dropping out of school in ninth grade, bearing two sons by 17 and having her nose repeatedly

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Consider both the ADA and the FMLA when handling employee substance abuse – Business Management Daily
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Consider both the ADA and the FMLA when handling employee substance abuse
Business Management Daily
After passing his first substanceabuse test, co-workers reported that he began acting strangely. One said he frequently went to his car to take sips from something in a brown bag. Someone else said he could smell alcohol on George's breath. That

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