Prescription Drug Addiction

Published March 21, 2014

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Substance abuse experts, community team up to combat drug, heroin addiction
ALBANY – New York State must take fast action against the growing heroin and prescription drug epidemic. That was the message at a press conference at the Capitol on Tuesday. The Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers, also called …
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Experts: substance abuse linked to mental illness
Experts say those who are may be more susceptible to drug addiction. "Just stay high, keep busy, go go go," Tammy Harwell said. She said after her son's death, she hid her pain with drugs. She said, at the time, numbing the pain seemed to be the answer.
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Abuse of painkiller Zohydro likely, due Florida's voluntary prescription database
Around the same time, those same people — drug abuse experts, law enforcement officials, pharmacists, doctors and families of the dead — directed their focus to a conference center in Maryland where a U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory …
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