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• Prescription drug abuse by teens on the rise

  Created: Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:56 Author: Carolyn Johnson

  This is the link to ABC New's story and video by Carolyn Johnson that aired tonight on their 6PM news program. Joey's story and NCAPDA are featured and different aspects of the PDA issue are provided by Dr. Gracer, his patient and Dublin High VP Theresa...

• Xanax Withdrawal

  Created: Thursday, 18 November 2010 23:26 Author: Alesandra Rain

  Adverse reaction to medications are taking lives daily yet too often the public believes that being legal all pills are safe. And unfortunately if the combination proves lethal, too often it is deemed ‘natural causes’ and the pills are not held respo...

• Deadly fentanyl makes its way to Mercer Island

  Created: Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:46 Author: MARY L. GRADY

  Drug-related fatalities are now at the top of the accidental-death list in a growing number of states   Link To Story...

• Parker family shares pain of prescription drug death

  Created: Thursday, 11 November 2010 23:38 Author: Ginger Delgado

  More people died in Colorado in 2009 as a result of prescription drug abuse than alcohol-related traffic accidents by a margin of almost 3 to 1   Link To Story...

• Doctor Arrested on Federal Drug Trafficking Charges for Dispensing Narcotics without Examining ‘Patients’

  Created: Monday, 01 November 2010 15:32 Author: Sarah Pullen

  Extra retirement income?? Link To Story...