What to Do if Your Prescription Medicine Has Been Recalled

What to Do if Your Prescription Medicine Has Been Recalled – http://bit.ly/UMVcJ5 While medical advances continue to be extremely helpful to many people, prescription drugs are occasionally pushed to the market before …

Crime and Courts Roundup: Sheboygan man arrested for disorderly conduct

Filed under: Wisconsin Drug Abuse

Marathon County sheriff's official Gary Schneck says heroin use in the Wausau area has jumped rapidly in the last three years, and it started when drug-makers added time-release coatings to painkillers like oxycontin to cut down on their abuse. That's …
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Less incarceration? Sensenbrenner co-leading new 'over-criminalization' panel

Filed under: Wisconsin Drug Abuse

Republican Wisconsin Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner is co-leading a new bipartisan Over-Criminalization Task Force to revise the federal criminal code. A Huffington Post story says the effort could lead to reduced prison sentences for non-violent drug …
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