Washington Rally Calls for Stronger Restrictions on Painkillers

Washington rally calls for stronger restrictions on painkillers

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Real Estate; Today's Paper; Portland Press Herald Facebook page Facebook; Portland Press Herald Twitter … The FDA classifies hydrocodone products as schedule III controlled substances – meaning that those products have lower potential for abuse than …
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Justice Department Ramps Up Cybercrimes Prosecutions Despite Shutdown

Filed under: Portland Drug Addiction Help

The 13 are being accused of participating in Operation Payback, a retaliatory strike against efforts to shut down the Pirate Bay, a peer-to-peer (P2P) torrent hosting site, in which users can download the metadata and networking locations of other …
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The price of addiction: Prescription painkillers, heroin plague Portland (Series)

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Dr. Eric Chang, an infectious diseases specialist at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, started noticing a curious uptick a few months ago in various infections that tend to originate from bacteria introduced by injection drug use, including the flesh …
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Flesh-eating Russian drug makes it's way to US

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"On the street it's the cheapest opiate you can get," said Dr. Melissa Weimer, the medical director for 1500 patients at CODA drug treatment centers in Portland. "It's to early to tell if it's here or not because sometimes patients use drugs and don't …
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