Drug registry program cuts down on prescription abuse
More people die of accidental overdoses from prescription drug abuse than die on our highways in Montana. "Deaths from prescription drugs are outnumbering homicides and car accidents. It's a dramatic statistic," said Starla Blank, a pharmacist at St …
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Maryland families to get new tool in fight against drug overdoses
Her son Kris Klipner succumbed to the drug in 2007. He was 28. Klipner's half-brother battles the same kind of depression as Kris. He suffers the same heroin addiction Kris did. Kirk Fletcher, 29, is in a methadone program to help him avoid the drug …
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Prescription drug take-back program designed to thwart pill abuse, theft
Rx Take-Back Mobile Police Headquarters on Government Street was one of thousands of free, anonymous drop-off sites Saturday, April 27, 2103, as part of National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. After only two hours, officers with the Mobile department …
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