Eye to Eye With Katie Couric: Rx Drug Abuse (CBS News)
Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Rx Drug Abuse (CBS News) – Only On The Web”: In the war on drugs the abuse of prescription medication among teens is up. Steve Pasierb of Partnership for a Drug-Free America has more on what parents can do to prevent drug use. (CBSNews.com)
Minnesota Tribes See Prescription Drug Use Leading to Heroin Addiction
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Prescription drug abuse drives opiate addicts to use whatever they can get, and heroin is chemically similar to morphine or oxycodone. Not only are the prescription pills expensive, pharmaceutical companies recently altered prescription formulas to …
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Exposed: The pharmacists acting like 'small time drug pushers', selling …
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
Undercover: A BBC researcher buys a bottle of Oramorph – which contains the addictive painkiller morphine – without a prescription. The investigation found some London chemists are illegally selling addictive and dangerous prescription drugs …
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Statewide tracking program helps curb prescription drug abuse in Kansas
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The electronic monitoring program, called Kansas Tracking and Reporting of Controlled Substances, or K-TRACS, is designed to crack down on possible abuse of prescription drugs by giving health care providers more immediate information about abnormal …
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