Opiate Deaths Up 400%

ISU looking into spike in alcohol offenses
VINTON — Iowa State University officials on Wednesday addressed an Iowa Board of Regents’ report that showed a significant increase in alcohol offenses during the first three months of 2010 in comparison with the first quarter of 2009.

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New Program Helps Teens Fight Drug, Alcohol Abuse
Forsyth County is joining a nationwide movement to help juveniles fighting drug and alcohol abuse.

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Opiate deaths up 400%
Larimer County residents have been dying due to drug overdoses in increasingly larger numbers during the past decade. And since 2007, the most fatal drugs have been prescription opiates, which include many common painkillers.

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