R.I. Attorney General's Office Initiates 'Take Back' Program for Unused …

Published October 30, 2013

R.I. Attorney General's office initiates 'take back' program for unused …
The statewide “take back” day is one of several that have been organized in cooperation with the Drug Enforcement Administration in an effort to help prevent abuse of prescription drugs. More than 180 Rhode Islanders died last year from unintentional … Read more on The Providence Journal

The Dark Side Of America's Rush Into Prescription Drugs Has Never Been More …
These fatalities now outnumber deaths from heroin and cocaine combined, that same report found. More than 12 million people said they abused prescription drugs in 2010. The only other drug people abuse more is marijuana, the White House noted in a … Read more on Business Insider

Pain pills can be prescriptions for addiction, death
One of the largest-growing populations of addicts right now are senior citizens because of being prescribed pain medications for arthritis or aches and pains that they have, and they don't realize it." And increasingly, those who die from it are women … Read more on USA TODAY