MATForce Lunch 'N Learn Focuses on Prescription Drug Abuse, a Silent Epidemic

MATForce Lunch 'n Learn focuses on prescription drug abuse, a silent epidemic

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This presentation is part of the Governor's Office Prescription Drug Abuse Reduction Project, which MATForce and Yavapai County have been asked to pilot for the state. The Lunch 'n Learn will be held on Thursday, Nov. 29, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at …
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The new epidemic: Prescription drug abuse

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Science has blessed the medical community with powerful prescription drugs that can take away a patient's pain — Vicodin, OxyContin, Oxycodone, Percocet and others. But those drugs are opiate-based and addictive. Most patients who use them won't …
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OxyContin use down in Vt. but heroin use increases

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Investigators, counselors, and others combating drug abuse were elated two years ago when OxyContin's manufacturer, Purdue Pharma, reformulated the prescription pain medicine, Lieutenant Matt Birmingham, head of the Vermont Drug Task Force, said in …
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@KD_Miller4 lol yea! So many ppl abuse it and acording to the law alcohol is a drug. – by CodyHo_sanna (Lex)

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