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prescription drug abuse
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LA Times: While board investigates, doctors’ ‘reckless prescribing’ kills
By zeroing in on one particular type of dangerous physician behavior, known as “reckless prescribing,” Los Angeles Times reporters Lisa…
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Fla. database intended to stop prescription drug abuse is largely unused
After years of increasing scrutiny as it sat at what appeared to the epicenter of the national prescription painkiller abuse…
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OxyContin’s early poster children: Where are they now?
More than a decade into America’s new age of opiates, the long-term effects of the ubiquitous prescription painkillers are starting…
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AP puts numbers on the prescription drug epidemic
The Associated Press’ Chris Hawley has worked through the latest numbers on the prescription painkiller boom, helping to illustrate the…
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Investigation delves into Wash.’s prescription drug problem
Everything time we think prescription drug abuse stories have peaked, something comes along to push the story further. This time,…
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Web outlet pumps out dozens of stories on prescription drug abuse
In partnership with USC’s Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and a number of other organizations, Santa Barbara online news…
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Thieves target pharma cargo, cause shortages
Reporting for WBBH-Fort Myers, Fla., Andy Pierotti reports that highly specialized thieves have made an art form of snatching shipping…
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Series, inquest illuminate Canada’s pill problem
Writing for the reader-funded site rabble.ca with the help of a Canadian Institutes for Health journalism award, Ann Silversides is…
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Fla. juvenile justice system relies on heavy antipsychotic use
In looking into the state Department of Juvenile Justice’s use of powerful prescription antipsychotics, The Palm Beach Post‘s Michael LaForgia…
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Veteran journalists speak from front lines of prescription drug epidemic
In a subject area increasingly defined by its steady drumbeat of alarming numbers and increasingly dire statistics, the opening to…