Prescription Drug Abuse Victims

Published January 10, 2013

Prescription Drug Abuse Victims – A video of young adults who died because of Prescription Drugs. Made this for a class. All pictures taken from The Partnership For a Drug Free America. www.drugfree.org

Part 4: The prescription drug abuse problem

Filed under: prescription drug abuse

Parents, siblings, spouses and partners are frequently drug dependent and sometimes selling prescriptions on the streets. Vermont's Department of Children and Families Commissioner David Yacovone asks: “Is it the addiction that brought them to poverty, …
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Prescription drug strike force carries on despite lack of direct funding

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Rick Scott created the strike force, which coordinates efforts among local law enforcement agencies with the FDLE, in March 2011 to combat prescription drug abuse and “pill mill” operators – doctors who set up pain clinics for the sole purpose of …
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