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State drug task force adopts recommendations
COLUMBUS — Gov. Ted Strickland will have a report on his desk next week charting the first steps — albeit baby steps — of the plan to pull Ohio from the grips of growing prescription drug abuse.

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Prescription drug abuse common and deadly
Take a look in your medicine cabinet. What kind of old prescription drugs do you have just lying around the house? A family member or friend could easily walk off with them to feed a toxic craving, and one recovering addict said they did just that.

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A HEARTBROKEN mum yesterday vowed to put medics who gave her son a fatal overdose in the dock.

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