Hennepin County Officials Offer Tips on Teen Drug Abuse Prevention

Hennepin County officials offer tips on teen drug abuse prevention
Mother recounts son’s downward spiral to untimely drug death BY SUE WEBBER CONTRIBUTING WRITER   Andrew Scheig was born April 7, 1993. He graduated from Maple Grove High School’s alternative program in 2011. On March 5, 2013, his mother found him dead in bed, the result of an unintentional overdose of heroin at the age […] The post Hennepin County officials offer tips on teen drug abuse … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Ameritox Webinars to Help Educate Physicians on New Indiana Prescription Drug Mandates
BALTIMORE, Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — AmeritoxSM announced today that it is sponsoring a series of webinars aimed at educating Indiana physicians about a new set of laws intended to curb prescription drug misuse and abuse. In 2010, 711 people in Indiana died from accidental drug overdoses, and nationally the Centers for Disease Control have deemed prescription painkiller abuse an "epidemic … Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results

Dec. 17 townhall meeting to focus on RX drug abuse
LAPEER — Nearly two million Americans are addicted to prescription opioids, a family of drugs that includes the commonly prescribed Vicodin and OxyContin. read more Drug Abuse – Yahoo News Search Results