Drug Abuse: OxyContin Use Down in Vt. but Heroin Use Increases – Boston.com

OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases – Boston.com
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OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases
Boston.com
WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — Efforts to make OxyContin harder to abuse have succeeded in Vermont, the top state police drug investigator says, but one notable result has been addicts switching to an older scourge: heroin. Lt. Matt Birmingham, head of the

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Michigan awarded grant to address underage drinking and prescription drug … – Manisteenews
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Michigan awarded grant to address underage drinking and prescription drug
Manisteenews
LANSING – The Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH) Bureau of Substance Abuse and Addiction Services has been awarded a three-year grant to address two of the nation's top substance abuse prevention priorities — underage drinking

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Trumbull Students Learn Life Lessons from a Former Celtic – Patch.com
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Trumbull Students Learn Life Lessons from a Former Celtic
Patch.com
The then 18-year-old started like the students at St. Joseph, listening to a professional sports player talk about the dangers of drug abuse and saying to himself it could never happen to him. That changed one day when he walked in on his college

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Procedures changing for drug use in horse racing – Bowling Green Daily News
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Procedures changing for drug use in horse racing
Bowling Green Daily News
Steve Beshear ordered that only state vets be allowed to administer the drug furosemide, more commonly known as Lasix, one horse that wasn't supposed to get the shot did, one that should have gotten the shot didn't, and two horses got two injections,

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