According to an investigation by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting of state disciplinary records, from 2003 to 2013, 16 pharmacists and 41 pharmacy technicians lost their licenses for stealing drugs from pharmacy shelves or from the patients whose prescriptions they filled.
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A new study counters that assertion, suggesting that the nature of the teenage brain makes users of marijuana amongst this age group particularly at risk of developing addictive behaviors.
Five years after a record low, the state of Ohio is seeing a strong resurgence of methamphetamine lab seizures. Fueled by a new and faster method of making the substance, use of the drug is growing faster than it has in several years.
The CVS drugstore chain has taken the unusual step of no longer honoring prescriptions written by medical professionals whom the company has found to have prescribed an excessive number of pain killers.
The new website, www.BitterPill.IN.gov, will offer information on where to go for help and how to properly dispose of expired or unwanted medication.
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Every day millions of people get behind the wheel under the influence of strong prescription medications that can have dangerous consequences if used incorrectly.
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A new study conducted by the alcohol awareness organization Drinkaware indicates that 39 percent of 10 to 17-year-olds have seen images of their friends drunk on social networking websites. More than one tenth of those children were under the age of 13.
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Police allege that Sarah Ann Stephens knowingly passed a deadly cocktail of Xanax, methadone and the painkiller Opana to her son, Ryder, through her breastmilk.
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In the September issue of British Cosmopolitan, Kelly speaks candidly about that time, and her struggle with substance abuse.
In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, the actor, who was 21 at the time, admitted that his new-found fame was too much to handle. He turned to drugs as a means to to escape and became addicted to heroin “in a matter of days.”
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At the Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour, Kevin Reilly, entertainment director of FOX — the show’s network — told reporters that Monteith’s character, Finn Hudson, would be written out of the show.
Law enforcement officials say that it is necessary to classify inhalants as intoxicants, so that a driver with a huffing addiction will be taken off the road and put into a treatment program in the same manner as alcoholics or narcotics addicts.
