Prescription-Drug Abuse Torments Eastern Kentucky County – Courier-Journal

Published December 19, 2011

Prescription-drug abuse torments Eastern Kentucky county – Courier-Journal
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
Prescription-drug abuse is killing Kentuckians at record levels, with deaths more than doubling in the past decade to nearly 1,000 a year. The Kentucky Medical licensure Board has sometimes granted licenses to convicted felons who got into trouble again …
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Rise in property crime blamed on drug addiction – Kennebec Journal
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That trend, plus an even bigger explosion in motor vehicle thefts, appears to be fueled by a growing and troubling increase in prescription drug abuse, according to city officials. Mayor William Stokes, who is chief of the criminal division of …
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Saga of 12-year-old foster boy reveals state’s psychiatric drug abuse of children – Natural News.com
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(NaturalNews) A 12-year-old Texas boy testified before Congress that he was drugged for four years with multiple anti-psychotic medications while in the state foster system. The boy, identified only as Ke’onte, recalled that the drugs left him “in a stupor …
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