Police: Driver in double-fatal crash had traces of 11 drugs in body

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Police found a marijuana pipe on the seat of Gabree's car and a mostly empty prescription bottle for Suboxone, a medication used to treat opiate addiction, according to court papers released after her arraignment this week. Edmund Moran, 82, the driver …
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TMA Seeks to Improve 'Doctor Shopping' Database

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For each unintentional lethal prescription overdose, nine people are treated for substance abuse treatment, 35 visit emergency departments, 161 report drug abuse or dependency, and 461 report nonmedical use of opioid analgesics. The hardest hit …
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Oxy addict should serve straight jail: Prosecutor

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Oxy addict should serve straight jail: Prosecutor 0. By Harold … The tablets, however, were determined to be from a valid prescription belonging to Breen. Breen, who was charged … The marijuana and Fentanyl discoveries, as well as the fact Breen …
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PEOPLE'S PHARMACY: Will bladder drug scramble synapses?

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The Food and Drug Administration recently decided that symptoms of overactive bladder could be treated without a prescription. The agency approved a drug called Oxytrol. The active ingredient, oxybutynin, has been sold by prescription as Ditropan …
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