Prescription Drug Abuse

Published January 4, 2013

Prescription Drug Abuse –

Statewide tracking program helps curb prescription drug abuse in Kansas

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The electronic monitoring program, called Kansas Tracking and Reporting of Controlled Substances, or K-TRACS, is designed to crack down on possible abuse of prescription drugs by giving health care providers more immediate information about abnormal …
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Prescription drugs 'orphan' children in eastern Kentucky

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"I don't know what was going on, but I knew something was wrong," said Watkins. His mother was dead after overdosing on Oxycontin. At the time, Watkins says that he and his mother had been estranged for years because of her prescription-drug addiction.
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