PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse Aired 5-3-13

PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse aired 5-3-13 – In this excerpt from the PBS NewsHour, correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at what Oklahoma is doing to battle prescription drug abuse, and the addiction th…

Improvements suggested for Montana Prescription Drug Registry

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HELENA – Prescription drug abuse is a problem that's getting worse across the nation. Last week, a legislative panel heard from doctors, pharmacists, and law enforcement officials about ways to improve one of the tools in the war against the abuse of …
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Leaving aside Reverend Flowers' drug abuse – the truly indefensible thing was …

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Leave aside the Reverend Paul Flowers' drug abuse for a moment. God knows enough of that goes on within the City of London. What was truly indefensible about Flowers' position as chairman of the bank was that he knew so little about finance. That was …
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Addiction Specialists Wary of New Painkiller

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Published: November 15, 2013. Addiction experts protested loudly when the Food and Drug Administration approved a powerful new opioid painkiller last month, saying that it would set off a wave of abuse much as OxyContin did when it first appeared.
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