Keating Pushed for Tamper-Resistant Drugs – Cape Cod Times

Keating pushed for tamper-resistant drugs – Cape Cod Times
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On Cape Cod, which is part of Keating’s congressional district, addiction to prescription pain pills has led to a wave of property crime and a huge increase in the use of heroin. Nationally, deaths related to drug abuse now exceed those related …
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OxyContin Addiction and How The Drug Works – Transworld News
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Most individuals who abuse OxyContin do not take it orally in order … whose life is being controlled by the dependency they have on this drug. In most cases, OxyContin addiction began as an innocent act of either experimenting with the drug …
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Canada not tracking prescription drug death statistics

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Sometimes the prescription drug misuse isn't the result of an addiction or someone looking for a high. "People are also sharing these drugs with their friends and their family members, not necessarily to be abused, but because they know somebody who …
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Beshear: Prescription Drug Abuse — No State Is an Island

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Police found thousands of Oxycodone and Xanax pills — two of the most abused prescription drugs in Kentucky. And while our officers are working around the clock to arrest the traffickers and the crooked prescribers, the growth of addiction in our …
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