Concern Grows Over Opiate, Heroin Abuse

Unused meds part of drug abuse problem
COLUMBUS — The medicine cabinet has become the new street corner or back alley, say experts on drug addiction.

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Drug abuse linked to rise in burglaries
If 150 people were shot and killed in Maine this year, the public outrage would ripple from Kittery to Fort Kent, Maine’s top public safety official said Wednesday. So why isn’t there more concern that the same number of people died last year from drug overdoses, Commissioner Anne Jordan asked.

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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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