Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

Mississippi agents working more prescription drug abuse cases than cocaine …

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Over the past dozen years, the number of Americans taking powerful prescription painkillers has nearly quadrupled. So have the deaths. These problems are affecting Mississippi, where narcotics agents are now working more prescription drug cases than …
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Local Voices: Karen Pershing: Address violence behind drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

When digging deeply into the complex issues surrounding the current prescription drug epidemic, have we stopped to ask ourselves, “Why is our society so susceptible to addiction?” Pharmaceutical sales data show 70 percent of the world's narcotics are …
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If Pennington Gap is dying, drug abuse may be what's killing it

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

“The prescription drug problem has gotten tremendously worse,” said Dr. Robert Pack, professor & associate dean of Academic Affairs for the College of Public Health at East Tennessee State University. “Recently, overdose deaths have passed motor …
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