Drug Abuse: Prescription Drug Abuse on the Rise in Commonwealth

Prescription drug abuse on the rise in commonwealth
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With prescription drug abuse on the rise in Massachusetts and across the U.S., officials are grappling with how to combat the epidemic on both a state and local level.
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Does Carroll County have a drug problem?
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Dave Schaffer, director of the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Tuscarawas and Carroll counties, said it’s no coincidence recent drug arrests have coincided with another growing trend: more adults seeking treatment for heroin and prescription-drug abuse. “This might be a bigger problem than we’ve realized,” Schaffer said.
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Eastern Massachusetts ranks high nationally in drug abuse
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Abuse of illicit drugs, including heroin, again posed a significant public health problem in Massachusetts last year with eastern Massachusetts posting a rate of emergency room visits involving drugs higher than that of any other major metropolitan region in the country, according to a new report.
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Edinburgh and East – Fri, 20 Jan, 2012

The Advocate General for Scotland has warned Alex Salmond that he is not above the law when it comes to holding an independence referendum. Lord Wallace in a speech at Glasgow University this afternoon repeated the UK Government’s belief that Holyrood has no power to stage a poll. However the First Minister has hit back at the law officer saying he has no mandate to dictate on the issue. In other news: Detectives in Edinburgh are making a direct appeal to the city’s Polish community to tell them who was responsible for the murder of a thirty-four year-old man; A new one-stop shop for Scots affected by alcohol or drug problems has opened in the capital. In sport: Hearts have knocked back an offer from Crawley Town for Ryan Stevenson. This is an international version of the news that may have been edited for rights reasons.