PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse Aired 5-3-13

PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse aired 5-3-13 – In this excerpt from the PBS NewsHour, correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at what Oklahoma is doing to battle prescription drug abuse, and the addiction th…

Deadly epidemic: Prescription drug overdoses

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"Patients get prescriptions for pain drugs and then they get addicted, making it very hard to get off them," he said. "Her life was a mess. …" "We had a woman here recently who sang in the church choir, was a stay-at-home mom, had beautiful children …
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Bitter Pills series: Finding ways to combat the growing prescription drug …

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Four years ago, Wilkes County had one of the highest overdose rates in the country, four times the North Carolina average. From 2007 to 2009, state records show, overdoses killed more people in Wilkes County than car wrecks. Almost all of the overdoses …
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