COMMUNITY COMMENT: You Can Help Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse

COMMUNITY COMMENT: You can help prevent prescription drug abuse

Filed under: drug addiction help

Those are valid concerns, yet we need to alert parents of a parallel drug problem that also has taken root in Indiana and plagues Hoosier families: abuse of drugs that are legal with a prescription. Unfortunately our state is caught up in a national …
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Lawyer: Theft suspect has drug addiction

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Joseph E. Nastasia, 29, of Royal Park Apartments in North Attleboro, was sent to the Massachusetts Alcohol and Substance Abuse Center in Bridgewater for a drug evaluation based on testimony a judge heard in Attleboro District Court. His lawyer, Stephen …
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Plan of attack — McDowell targets drug scourge

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But the drug epidemic is a crisis. And it will take a team effort of law enforcement, human-service agencies, elected leaders and concerned citizens working together to help stem this deadly tied of prescription drug abuse. And it will take drug …
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Addicted to Painkillers, Unready for Help

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California, the Supreme Court held that while conviction solely for drug addiction was unconstitutional, “a state might establish a program of compulsory treatment for those addicted to narcotics.” Many did, others didn't. The high court has yet to …
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