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Drug Abuse: Increased Abuse of Prescription Drugs Concerns Local, State Authorities – Troy Record

Drug Abuse: Increased abuse of prescription drugs concerns local, state authorities – Troy Record
ALBANY — Speaking outside a summit on prescription drug abuse, the head of New York’s criminal justice division said the nation’s fastest-growing drug problem is “not something we can arrest ourselves out of.” Sean Byrne, acting commissioner of …
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Drug Abuse: Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere – New York Times
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Drug Abuse: ER Visits for Drug-Related Suicide Attempts Up in Men – WebMD

Drug Abuse: ER Visits for Drug-Related Suicide Attempts Up in Men – WebMD

ER Visits for Drug-Related Suicide Attempts Up in Men
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The article highlights the growing problem of prescription drug abuse of painkillers, antidepressants, anti-anxiety drugs, and sleep aids, he says. “These drugs are effective, important treatments for pain, insomnia, and/or depression, so we don't want
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Drug Abuse: Tatum O’Neal on Drug Use, Father Ryan O’Neal, New Memoir ‘Found,’ New … – Chicago Tribune

Drug Abuse: Tatum O’Neal on drug use, father Ryan O’Neal, new memoir ‘Found,’ new … – Chicago Tribune


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Tatum O'Neal on drug use, father Ryan O'Neal, new memoir 'Found,' new
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The drug use continued until O'Neal eventually landed in jail in 2008. She has since gotten clean and she and father Ryan are the subjects of a new documentary series on OWN, "The O'Neals: Ryan and Tatum." Tatum says… Continue reading

Drug Abuse: New Drug-Abuse Epidemic Frustrating N.J.

Drug Abuse: New drug-abuse epidemic frustrating N.J.
TRENTON – Crooked doctors, rogue Internet sites, and deceitful smartphone applications are stymieing attempts to fight a deadly drug-abuse epidemic in New Jersey, according to a state investigation released Wednesday.
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Drug Abuse: Summit discusses prescription drug abuse in New York
Leaders and experts in public health and public safety came together on Thursday to fight the growing problem of prescription drug… Continue reading

Drug Abuse: Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere – New York Times

Drug Abuse: Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere – New York Times
BROCKTON, Mass. — Michael Capece had been snorting OxyContin for five years when a new version of the drug, intended to deter such abuse, hit the market last summer. The reformulated pills are harder to crush, turning instead into a gummy substance that …
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Drug Abuse: Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere – New York Times

Drug Abuse: Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere – New York Times

Drug Is Harder to Abuse, but Users Persevere
New York Times
Purdue Pharma, the maker of OxyContin, may have succeeded for now in reducing illicit demand for its reformulated drug. But in several dozen interviews over the last few months, drug abuse experts, law enforcement officials and addicts said the
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