Prescription Drug Abuse: Three Stories, One Common Purpose
Prescription Drug Abuse: Three Stories, One Common Purpose – Anyone — regardless of age, race, gender or status — can abuse prescription drugs. And it doesn’t just take its toll on the abuser. Family and friends shar…
Twins, 25, 'who did everything together' found dead from accidental drug …
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But after two years battling debilitating drug addictions together, twins John and Eugene Meek, 25, couldn't fight anymore. … John detailed his struggle with drug abuse on his Facebook page, describing a recent golf outing with his family where he …
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Women Hit Hard as Toll Rises In Overdoses From Pain Pills
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For years, drug overdose deaths in the United States were seen as mostly an urban problem that hit blacks hardest. But opioid abuse, which exploded in the 1990s and 2000s and included drugs like OxyContin, Vicodin and Percocet, has been worst among …
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Sharp Rise in Women's Deaths From Overdose of Painkillers
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The range indicates that at least some portion of the drugs may have been prescribed appropriately for pain, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in an interview. If death rates were driven purely by abuse, then one …
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