Drug Abuse: US Revokes Drug Licenses for 2 Fla. CVS Pharmacies – USA TODAY

US revokes drug licenses for 2 Fla. CVS pharmacies – USA TODAY
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US revokes drug licenses for 2 Fla. CVS pharmacies
USA TODAY
Two Central Florida CVS pharmacies have lost their licenses to dispense controlled substances after the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration accused them of ignoring the state's prescription drug abuse epidemic by dispensing excessive amounts of
DEA revokes licenses of two Orlando-area CVS drugstoresOrlando Sentinel
US revoking 2 CVS stores' controlled substance licensesReuters
DEA to Act Against Two CVS StoresWall Street Journal

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Prescription drug use an epidemic in SLO County – KSBY San Luis Obispo News
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Prescription drug use an epidemic in SLO County
KSBY San Luis Obispo News
"Prescription drug mis-use and abuse has been growing astronomically," says Mott. "It's safe to say there is a huge problem." According to county health data, prescription drug abuse in SLO County has grown from 3.3 percent in 2007 to 14.8 percent in 2011.

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Putting a spotlight on accidental drug deaths – Winston-Salem Journal
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Putting a spotlight on accidental drug deaths
Winston-Salem Journal
North Carolina is one of the nation's worst states for prescription drug abuse, and Iredell County ranks higher than the state average in accidental drug deaths. That makes September — National Recovery Month – all the more important, and supporters

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Nacada Says Rift Valley Leads in Alcohol Abuse – AllAfrica.com
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Nacada Says Rift Valley Leads in Alcohol Abuse
AllAfrica.com
A survey by the National Campaign Against Drug Abuse Authority shows that Rift Valley province leads in the manufacture, trafficking and abuse of illicit brews especially chang'aa and busaa. Nacada CEO William Okedi says the high consumption of illicit

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Honky Tonk Blues – The Rolling Stones note for note cover – by GC


SONG FACTS: Keith Richards notes: “Honky Tonk Women” started in Brazil. Mick and I, Marianne Faithfull and Anita Pallenberg who was pregnant with my son at the time. Which didn’t stop us going off to the Mato Grasso and living on this ranch. It’s all cowboys. It’s all horses and spurs. And Mick and I were sitting on the porch of this ranch house and I started to play, basically fooling around with an old Hank Williams idea. And then couple of months later we were writing songs and recording. And somehow by some metamorphosis it suddenly went into this little swampy, black thing, a Blues thing. Really, I can’t give you a credible reason of how it turned around from that to that. Except there’s not really a lot of difference between white Country music and black Country music. It’s just a matter of nuance and style. I think it has to do with the fact that we were playing a lot around with open tunings at the time. So we were trying songs out just to see if they could be played in open tuning. And that one just sunk in.” Lead guitarist Brian Jones was a founding member of the group and was considered their leader in their early years. Unfortunately, drug abuse made him pretty much worthless, and when The Stones finished recording this on June 8, 1969, they drove to his house and fired him. This was released July 3, 1969, the same day Jones was found dead in his swimming pool. Mick Taylor had taken over for Brian Jones on lead guitar, and this was his first appearance on a