Drug Take-Back Programs Lower Chance of Abuse With Unused Medication

Published March 29, 2014

Drug take-back programs lower chance of abuse with unused medication — In 2010, Kentucky was third among the states with the highest rates of drug overdose fatalities. Ohio was ranked No. 12 and Indiana ranked No. 17.

Critical condition
When comparing Michigan to Ohio, with Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, and Dayton I guess would be what Dr. Hamel termed as "urban poor state", Ohio's emergency care environment overall ranking is "7' in comparison to Michigan's overall ranking coming in …
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Debate Grows Over Public Administration of Narcan
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates …
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Taking Down the Mob: Undercover Cop's Six Years of Risky Business
By the time he cut his hair and returned to uniform in 1996, O'Donnell's testimony had been instrumental in putting hundreds of suspected mobsters behind bars and led to the seizure of vehicles, drugs and hundreds of thousands of dollars. The busts …
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