Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse on the Rise
Prescription Drug and Heroin Abuse on the Rise
The growing alarm to drug abuse is nothing new, but as the number of deaths rise in Fairfield County, Norwalk officials are warning the community of what has become not only a state-wide epidemic, but a local emergency. State-wide drug-related deaths have …
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Treating Drug Use as a Disease, Not a Crime
In a survey released today by the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of people characterized drug abuse is either a “crisis” or a “serious problem” in the U.S. That number hasn’t changed much in nearly twenty years. What has changed is how Americans are …
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Klobuchar presses DEA to implement law to help curb prescription drug abuse
NEWS RELEASE — Washington, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to press the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) for immediate action to implement her law to help fight prescription drug abuse and …
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R.I. Senate panel considers bills to aid treatment of drug addiction
Published: April 02 2014 01:00. Amid growing concern about drug abuse in Rhode Island, a legislative committee is considering bills requiring insurers to pay for medications that treat addiction and to ease access to painkillers formulated to prevent …
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