Drug Abuse: Poll Shows Depth of Prescription Drug Abuse in Kentucky – Weku

Poll Shows Depth of Prescription Drug Abuse in Kentucky – weku
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Poll Shows Depth of Prescription Drug Abuse in Kentucky
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One-third of Kentucky adults have friends or relatives who have experienced problems from abusing prescription pain relievers, and 8 percent have used pain medicine when it wasn't prescribed or for the feeling it caused, according to a statewide poll

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Parent, Sibling Military Deployment Raises Drug Abuse Risk in Teens – Medical Daily
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Parent, Sibling Military Deployment Raises Drug Abuse Risk in Teens
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Study results showed that youth, whose parents or siblings were deployed, were at 14 percent higher risk of abusing drugs than other people. Researchers found that military deployment of parents or siblings increased both recent and lifetime use of

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