How Your Community Can Fight Prescription Drug Abuse – Teens Send a Wake-Up Call

How your community can fight prescription drug abuse – Teens Send a Wake-up Call – How to set up a permanent drug collection program in your community. Did you know that 70% of teens who abuse prescription drugs say they get them from famil…

Reports: Reggie Rogers dead at 49

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However, he broke his neck in a 1988 drunk-driving crash that killed three teens and served 16 months in prison. He returned to the NFL in … Rogers battled substance-abuse problems his whole adult life, with six drunken-driving convictions. He was …
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Unwanted Medication Collection

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Keeping leftover prescriptions in the medicine cabinet is not recommended, especially if there are teens in the house. According to the U.S. Office of Diversion Control, prescription drug abuse is on the rise, and many young people get those drugs …
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Ongoing problem of dangerous synthetic drugs

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I worked with you, Madam Chairman, as well as Senators Schumer, Klobuchar and many others, to pass the Synthetic Drug Abuse Prevention Act of 2012. That legislation placed many of these synthetic drugs on Schedule I, making them illegal. That was an …
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