Drug Treatment Not Yet Focus of Task Force

Concern grows over opiate, heroin abuse
Substance abuse experts and law enforcement officials in Pickerington and Fairfield County say they are increasingly concerned over the escalation of heroin- and opiate-based drug abuse.

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Sponsor: Pain clinic and more in new drug bill
COLUMBUS — Comprehensive legislation aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse in Ohio is set to be introduced at the Statehouse today, according to one of the bill’s sponsors.

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Drug treatment not yet focus of task force
COLUMBUS — There was talk of criminal investigations, dangerous drug databases, unlawful pain clinics and more during the Ohio Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force’s inaugural meetings. But there was one cornerstone to the epidemic’s cure that Gov. Ted Strickland would have not seen in the task force’s initial report: drug rehab.

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