New Prescription Drug Regulations Help Combat Abuse


 

New Prescription Drug Regulations Help Combat Abuse – Dr. Michael O’Neil, pharmacy professor at South College School of Pharmacy, offers insight on new prescription drug regulations taking effect today which put…

 

No, Teen Marijuana Use Doesn't Cause Brain Damage, But Alcohol Does

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Perhaps in response to the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington last month, more teens are lighting up than ever before. However, one study suggests that parents have less to fear from marijuana than from alcohol. The study found that …
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DOJ to Stop Packing Prisons With Minor Drug Offenders (Full Transcript)

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Attorney General Eric Holder is proposing a groundbreaking reform package to fix America's increasingly overcrowded prisons, which includes doing away with mandatory minimums for certain nonviolent drug offenders, the Washington Post reports. The …
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Holder goes after mandatory federal drug sentences

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WASHINGTON (AP) – Attorney General Eric Holder announced a major shift Monday in federal sentencing policies, targeting long mandatory terms that he said have flooded the nation's prisons with low-level drug offenders and diverted crime-fighting …
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