FactFinder 12: Help Needed to Save Drug Endangered Children
FactFinder 12: Help needed to save drug endangered children
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They are the unintended victims of drug abuse. Every year, hundreds of Kansas children are removed from homes because their parents are making, selling, or using illegal drugs. The experts say the children are born into a life that leads straight to …
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HOPE Court helps people facing mental health, addiction problems
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Judge Eric Martin listens to a client at HOPE Court in Zanesville. The program is built around helping people facing mental health problems, and often substance-abuse problems, change the course of their lives with the goal staying out of trouble …
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Prescription drug abuse on the rise
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AGAWAM, Mass. (WWLP) – Police need your help tracking down a suspect in the latest pharmacy armed robbery. Prescription drug overdose is a leading cause of accidental deaths in this country, and police say in Western Massachusetts heroin is partly to …
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Prescription Drugs Misuse, Abuse, Overdose & Diversion Video – Prescription Drugs: Killing More Than Pain; Sponsor: Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Task Force Training (MCTFT)/CADCA; Program Description: When America entered the new millennium, it entered a new era in the world of drug abuse. From the streets of the cities to the secluded family homes in the suburbs, prescription drug abuse is a problem that’s spilling out of pill bottles and into the lives of millions all across our country. Back in 2000, about 1.5 million Americans abused prescription drugs. Two years later, that number quadrupled — to more than six million. That’s a 400% increase. Thousands of people die each year because they overdose on prescription medications. Many abusers think they’re an FDA-approved high, while others become addicted after using powerful painkillers to treat legitimate pain. During this broadcast, learn how abusers are getting their drugs and how law enforcement, doctors, and pharmacists are fighting the problem. Hear from recovering addicts, treatment providers, doctors, robbery victims and more. Prescription drugs kill much more than pain. Program Objectives: Learn what prescription drugs are abused. Learn how doctors can better treat pain. See what would help pharmacists spot forged and altered prescriptions See what tactics work for law enforcement Find out what drug companies are doing Know where to go for help. Prescription drugs, a category of psychotherapeutics that comprises prescription-type pain relievers, tranquilizers …
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RT @AAPCC: @sanjayguptaCNN @CNN America’s 57 poison centers are doing their part to prevent prescription drug abuse! Poison Help Line: 1 … – by JacquesDentist (Jacques Dentistry)
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Prescription drugs are increasingly taken as primary drugs of abuse. – Drug Addiction Help Now-Drug Addiction Help Now http://t.co/tiy5Bk2h – by ChangngLives (Changing Lives )
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Prayers go out to @kattpackallday (katt williams) many of our brothers n sisters die daily from drug abuse get some help bro – by TheRealSpyda (Spyda Deezy)