Sens Get Reports on Crime, Drugs

Published June 7, 2013

Sens get reports on crime, drugs

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

JOHNSTOWN — State senators in Johnstown on Thursday for a roundtable hearing on crime and violence were treated to a short course on the drug problem and its relationship to crime in small urban areas. “I think it reinforced … Young people from …
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How OxyContin's Pain Relief Built 'A World Of Hurt'

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

… painkillers and the consequences of long-term use. He focuses in particular on OxyContin — how it came to be prescribed for chronic pain, what the consequences have been, and how it became a street drug. … these drugs are extremely beneficial …
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Staten Island prescription drug addicts resort to painkiller 'road trips'

Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment

Law enforcement sources here say that as the borough's prescription drug abuse epidemic gets more and more public attention addicts and criminals are discovering it increasingly difficult to get doctors here to write new prescriptions for oxycodone, or …
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