What Is OxyContin? Oxycodone Facts and Effects
What is OxyContin? Oxycodone Facts and Effects – For nearly 200 years, pharmaceutical companies have been searching for a non-addictive painkiller derived from the opium poppy. With the rise of opium abuse …
More U.S. Deaths from Prescription Drug Abuse than from Heroin and Cocaine …
In another sign of how big America's prescription drug overdose problem has become, deaths stemming from the aforementioned outnumber all heroin and cocaine overdoses combined. In addition to eclipsing heroin and cocaine-related deaths, fatalities …
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Drug Abuse Seminar Coming to Levittown
At this seminar parents will learn the following: how to tell if you child is "experimenting" and/or abusing drugs and alcohol, the latest trends in drug use and abuse, including prescription drugs and heroin, how to become proactive and take steps to …
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Saturday Is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day
Abuse rates in the United States are alarmingly high, the DEA said, with 6.8 million Americans abusing prescription drugs — nearly twice as many as those using cocaine, heroin, inhalants and hallucinogens combined. Studies also show that most abused …
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Heroin use at epidemic level in QA
CENTREVILLE — The Queen Anne's County Drug and Alcohol Council warns the county is facing an epidemic of heroin use. Since Jan. 1, emergency responders have had to administer 51 doses of Narcan, said Dr. Joseph A. Ciotola, emergency services …
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