Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

How many prisoners are drug addicts?

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Another problem is that mandatory testing doesn't detect the abuse of prescription drugs. The Chief Inspector of Prisons commented last year that: "prescription drugs are not routinely detected under current mandatory drug testing procedures which …
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Campaign encourages Virginians to lock up prescription drugs

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Law enforcement officials and the Virginia Attorney General's Office are launching a campaign to crack down on teen prescription drug abuse. The message is for Virginians to lock up their prescription drugs before they get into the wrong hands. State …
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