Manchin Fights for Measure to Help Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse in House-Senate Compromise Bill

Manchin Fights for Measure to Help Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse in House-Senate Compromise Bill –

Teen Prescription Drug Abuse Takes Center Stage at King-Chavez Academy

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

King-Chavez High School students will bring a dramatic twist to community engagement in the campaign against prescription drug abuse. Friday night, the aspiring actors will perform The Holding Cell in the hopes of raising awareness of prescription drug …
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Deaver Shattuck, MD, past chief of staff for Blount Memorial Hospital, speaks …

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A controlled substance database that pharmacies and doctors are not required to use will help, but everyone can contribute to helping the problem by doing small things such as discarding old prescription drugs and keeping painkillers and other drugs …
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Conway warns of prescription drug abuse to keep kids safe

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… by Amelia Holliday. Attorney General Jack Conway spoke to freshmen and sophomore students at PCC on Thursday as part of hi Keep Kentucky Kids Safe program, warning of the dangers of prescription drug abuse. … Joined by Dan Smoot, vice president …
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