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Maryland can prevent overdose deaths
With epidemic rates of prescription opioid and heroin deaths in Maryland, families are demanding easier access to the antidote that could save the lives of their loved ones. Naloxone is used safely to reverse the effects of heroin and prescription...Tags: Baltimore County, Maryland General Assembly, Health Organizations, Heroin, Epidemics and Plagues
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Forum participants warn of heroin use in Will County
Fran Marinier wept softly beneath a memorial tent at Lewis University, the same campus where her 20-year-old daughter overdosed on heroin five months ago while visiting a student. The Frankfort resident said she did everything she knew to help her...
Tags: Frankfort, Heroin, Epidemics and Plagues, Substance Abuse, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County
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Health law could overwhelm addiction services
CHICAGO (AP) — It has been six decades since doctors concluded that addiction was a disease that could be treated, but today the condition still dwells on the fringes of the medical community. Only 1 cent of every health care dollar in the United...
Tags: Barack Obama, Heroin, Symptoms, Behavioral Conditions, Career and Workplace
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Deaths tied to painkillers rising in the U.S.
Despite efforts by law enforcement and public health officials to curb prescription drug abuse, drug-related deaths in the United States have continued to rise, the latest data show. Figures from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...
Tags: Food and Drug Administration, Barack Obama, Health Organizations, Pain, Pharmaceuticals
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AP IMPACT: Cartels dispatch agents deep inside US
CHICAGO (AP) — Mexican drug cartels whose operatives once rarely ventured beyond the U.S. border are dispatching some of their most trusted agents to live and work deep inside the United States — an emboldened presence that experts believe...
Tags: Politics, Heroin, Crime, Law and Justice, Police Arrests, Lawyers
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US citing security to censor more public records
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government, led by the Pentagon and CIA, censored in the name of national security files that the public requested last year under the Freedom of Information Act more often than at any time since President Barack Obama...
Tags: U.S. Department of Justice, Barack Obama, Laws, U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
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Roots of pot cultivation in national forests are hard to trace
WELDON, Calif. — A few minutes after 4 a.m., agents in camouflage cluster in a dusty field in Kern County. "Movement needs to be slow, deliberate and quiet," the team leader whispers. "Lock and load now." They check their ammunition and assault...
Tags: Radio, Illegal Immigrants, Police Arrests, Conservation, Entertainment
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More Californians driving high than drunk on weekends, study says
L.A. NOWState officials are warning against "drugged driving" after a statewide survey found that drugs that can affect driving in one of every seven weekend nighttime motorists -- nearly twice as many drivers as has alcohol in their system.... -
New permanent drug drop-off box installed
Those looking to discard their prescription and over-the-counter drugs will now have a permanent drug drop-off box at the Charlevoix Police Department. Over the last few years, Petoskey's Tip of the Mitt Watershed Council, in coordination with many...Tags: Aquaculture, Prescription Drugs, Drug Trafficking, Over-the-Counter Medicines, Pharmaceuticals
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Drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in U.S., data show
Los Angeles TimesPropelled by an increase in prescription narcotic overdoses, drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the United States, a Times analysis of government data has found. Drugs exceeded motor vehicle accidents as a cause of death in 2009, killing...Tags: Symptoms, Disasters and Accidents, Back Pain, University of Michigan, Soma (drug)
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Letters to the Editor - Nov. 9
Prescription turn-in event targets youth drug abuse To the editor: An alarming number of Washington County youth are intentionally abusing prescription medications to get high. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has labeled...Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Barack Obama, Career and Workplace, Pain
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Somerset County Prison Board addresses repeat offenders
Daily American Staff WriterAbout 72 percent of the people in the Somerset County Jail are repeat offenders, according to statistics released at the Somerset County Prison Board’s monthly meeting on Tuesday. There were 107 people incarcerated in October, with an average...Tags: Prisons, Rentals
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