Prescription painkillers are creating a massive public-health crisis. Since 1990, deaths in the U.S. from unintentional drug overdoses have increased by over 500%. Most of this rise can be attributed ...
Kathy Deschner, PREVENT! Chair, lost her son to a prescription-drug overdose. Deschner's son's addiction began after receiving prescription opiates for a sports injury. "Many teens do not realize that ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Abuse of prescription drugs is growing rapidly around the world, with more people abusing legal narcotics than heroin, cocaine and ecstasy combined, the United Nations global drugs ...
Chinese researchers surveyed about 3,300 teens, once at age 14 and again one year later. Less than 3 percent of teens reported prescription drug abuse, 1.8 percent reported the abuse of opiates or ...
Riverside hosts community program to make parents, students aware of dangers. Parents, Irene (left) and Phillip Barhight, of Taylor, listen intently during a program about prescription drug abuse ...
Drug Enforcement Agents explain that prescription drug medications are the new gateway drug for teens, forming an expensive dependence that leads kids to look for cheaper ways to get high. According ...
CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- This week, Buchanan High School is the hub for a series of events. All organized to fight the dangers prescription drug abuse. Groups, volunteers, high school students and ...
New York has one of the nation’s toughest laws on prescription drug abuse, but a Team 12 Investigation has uncovered an apparent loophole. The opioid epidemic went unchecked for years until one ...
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Saturday is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day. Police Departments across the country are partnering with the Drug Enforcement Administration for the initiative, ...
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