Deaths From Prescription Drugs Now Top Heroin, Cocaine and LSD Combined

Deaths from prescription drugs now top heroin, cocaine and LSD combined

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Regina LaBelle with the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy told the more than 500 gathered that the number of deaths during the height of the heroin and cocaine epidemics pale in comparison the deaths now from prescription drug abuse.
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Summit takes on prescription drug abuse in Mississippi

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Fisher says 95 percent of drug overdose deaths in Mississippi are from the abuse of prescription narcotics. Last month alone, more than nine million doses of Hydrocodone were dispensed in the state. With a population of only about three million, Fisher …
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More must be done to fight abuse of drugs, two tell Senate caucus

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WASHINGTON – R. Gil Kerlikowske and Avi Israel agree: Much more needs to be done to stop prescription drug abuse from claiming the lives of young people. The former Buffalo police chief – who's now the Obama administration's "drug czar" – and the …
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Summit takes on prescription drug abuse in Mississippi

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Fisher says 95 percent of drug overdose deaths in Mississippi are from the abuse of prescription narcotics. Last month alone, more than nine million doses of Hydrocodone were dispensed in the state. With a population of only about three million, Fisher …
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