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Teens recover from prescription drug abuse
Staff WriterLife is looking brighter for eight local teens who were rushed to the emergency room last week after ingesting prescription medication. All four Calexico teens that overdosed on prescription pills last Wednesday have been released from Rady Children&...Tags: Muscle Relaxers, Hospitals and Clinics, Teaching and Learning, Students, Pharmaceuticals
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Eight teen overdoses in a week
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterCALEXICO — Four teens are in critical condition after overdosing on the prescription medication Baclofen on Wednesday night. The teens, ranging in age from 14 to 17 years, were found floating in water in the spa section of an apartment complex in...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Health, Muscle Relaxers, Hospitals and Clinics, Mental Health
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OD teens to be home soon
Staff WriterCALEXICO — The teens who overdosed on prescription medication here Wednesday night are in much more stable conditions, authorities said Friday. Three of the four teens who were hospitalized are now in stable conditions and off ventilators, with an...Tags: Muscle Relaxers, Personal Service
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Our View: Teen prescription drug abuse hits home
Most of us have seen the commercials warning parents and other adult family members to safeguard their prescription medications from teenagers. Those warnings hit home this week when eight Imperial County teens in two cities and two separate cases...Tags: Surveys, Behavioral Conditions, Vicodin (drug), Adderall (drug), Pharmaceuticals
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Eight teens hospitalized in last week for drug overdose
The Imperial County Public Health Department announced today that it has detected an unusual spike in drug overdoses involving eight teenagers, the most recent being three in serious condition from Calexico. The incidents occurred in two different...Tags: Health and Safety at School, Hospitals and Clinics, Mental Health, Behavioral Conditions, Parenting
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Our View: Abuse of prescription painkillers becoming a national problem
“There aren’t enough treatment centers and yet there’s a pharmacy on every corner.” That’s how one mother of a teenage addict described what an Associated Press analysis has unveiled: a prescription drug problem so huge...Tags: Percocet (drug), Health, Methamphetamine (drug), Pharmaceuticals, Chemical Industry
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What do you do with old medication?
I’m down here from New Mexico tending to the affairs of a relative who passed away. She has many bottles of prescription drugs and painkillers all over the house. I don’t want to just throw it in the trash or down the toilet, but everyone I&...Tags: Pharmaceuticals, Pain, Chemical Industry
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Imperial County takes back 7,100 pounds in unused medications
Staff WriterImperial County was one of two counties where more than 7,100 pounds of prescription drugs were turned in during a four-hour period at this past weekend’s annual event that allows people to safely dispose of expired medications. The Imperial Valley... -
Locals brace for more cuts to senior citizens aid
Imperial Valley Press Staff WriterFrom cuts to the heart during her husband’s previous heart surgeries to cuts in services for her disabled daughter, Brawley resident and senior citizen Maria Elena Miranda’s family might have to endure a bit more. Gov. Jerry Brown’s...Tags: Health, Hospitals and Clinics, Government, Elections, Jerry Brown
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Single tip led to Osceola drug case with more than 400 suspects in 18 counties
In the fall of 2011, an anonymous tipster set off one of Central Florida's largest recent drug cases by reporting Kissimmee residents dealing prescription painkillers. Months earlier, the pills had become harder to obtain when a new state law started...Tags: Pam Bondi, Hydromorphone (drug), Justice System, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Valeant near deal to acquire Bausch & Lomb: source
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Canada's Valeant Pharmaceuticals International is nearing a deal to acquire eye care company Bausch & Lomb Holdings Inc from Warburg Pincus LLC for about $9 billion, a person familiar with the matter said on Friday. Valeant shares...Tags: Bausch & Lomb, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Pharmaceuticals, Abbott Laboratories, Glaucoma
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Four More Charged In Medicaid Fraud Case
The Hartford CourantFour people were arrested this week as the result of an investigation into Medicaid fraud that has already produced four arrests and one jail sentence for a former physician. The four allegedly plotted with former Plainville physician Richard Luzietti...Tags: Lawyers, Health Insurance, Plainville, Prisons, Crimes
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