Basin Kids as Young as Nine Years Old Seeking Drug Abuse Treatment – We’re at the tail end of Red Ribbon week, a national anti-drug campaign with a heavy presence in the Basin. NewsWest 9 met up with local anti-drug leaders to…

Assured Pharmacy (APHY): A Possible New Drug Abuse Deterrence Business …

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Information included in these PDMPs is used to support/deny access to medical use of controlled substances to better facilitate the identification of prescription drug-addicted individuals and enable intervention and treatment. Although data seems to …
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Drug Control chief says average Russian addict starts at 15

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“The average age when addicts start taking drugs is 15-16 years, and the average age of those who die from diseases associated with drug addiction and from overdose is 30 years,” Viktor Ivanov said at a congress of a national volunteer antidrug …
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Cancer Survivor Sues HealthPartners for Discrimination

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Roger Jeffers (Sisseton Sioux), a 50-year-old bladder cancer survivor, says that he was the victim of racial discrimination while seeking treatment for post-chemotherapy-related health complications at HealthPartners St. Paul Clinic this fall. “Nobody …
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Prescription drug abuse a vicious cycle in W.Va.

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Prescription drug abuse in the United States has been rising steadily since 1992, and West Virginia leads the nation in prescription drug abuse statistics. The state has 25.8 abusers per 100,000, compared to second-place Nevada, with 19.6, according to …
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