Prescription Drug Abuse: Top 10 Things CDC Says You Should Know
Linebacker Austin Box of the Oklahoma Sooners takes a break during a game in 2010. Box died of an accidental prescription drug overdose the following year. Austin Box "gutted through" pain. Even after a bad blow to his back that ruptured a disc, the …
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Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most?
According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States — or 2.7 percent of the population — annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take medication not …
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Silver: Assembly Ethics Committee could decide Katz's post on Drug Abuse …
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, said today that he would leave it to the Assembly Ethics Committee to decide whether Assemblyman Steve Katz should remain on the chamber's Committee on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. katz3 Katz …
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