Where Can I Find Information for Prescription Drug Abuse?

Question by soccerplaya: where can i find information for prescription drug abuse?
hello everyone, i am doing a presentation on prescription drug abuse. I want to know where i can find good websites, books, and articles on why not to use them. i would also like to know some statistics. i have looked on Google but everything is from like 2000 or 2006. your help is greatly appreciated!

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Answer by Smile:)
http://www.dopestats.com/dopestats/index.jsp

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Prescription Drug Abuse in Indian Country Lamar Associates – Indian Country Training, a division of Lamar Associates, 100 percent Native American owned Professional Training and Technical Assistance company. Prescription Drug Abuse in Indian Country continues to increase and in some Tribal communities eclipse the methamphetamine crisis. This interview took place on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation with Agnes and Patricia Devereaux, sisters to Rita Devereaux who died of a prescription drug overdose in 2005. The sisters agreed to the interview conducted by Walter Lamar, a cousin to the Devereaux family and enrolled Blackfeet Tribal Member.

 

Federal prosecutors in Dallas join campaign to curb prescription drug abuse

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The primary focus will be to help save lives by warning the public, and teenagers in particular, about the dangers of abusing prescription and over-the-counter medicines. “Prescription drug abuse is an epidemic, especially among our teens,” said U.S …
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database intended to save lives is barely used

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One year ago, Florida created a weapon meant to help stop the prescription drug epidemic that kills an average of more than six people a day in this state. Since then, anyone filling …. "It doesn't reduce prescription drug abuse. It doesn't reduce …
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Eve Samples: There's a flip side to the prescription drug crackdown

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Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, has been a driving force behind the fight against prescription drug abuse in Florida — an important and necessary battle spurred by surging deaths and rogue "pill mills." Fasano pushed for the monitoring program that …
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Government Launches Online Program to Help Doctors Fight Prescription Drug Abuse http://t.co/4v1rAZ6f – by QueCEUs (Quantum Units Ed)

 

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help save kids frm prescription drug abuse” how about Dr’s stop prescribing drugs to Americans like it’s the bottom of the old food pyramid – by Da_Bears1138 (Ed)

 

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Help Stop Prescription Drug Abuse with Shannon Rouse Ruiz http://t.co/aDDdW6hA via @rebuildlife – by ElleSommer (Elle)