Sponsor: Bill Includes Pain Clinic Regulation

1-in-5 teens abuse prescription drugs, study finds
The Centers for Disease Control has released a survey that finds one out of every five high school students has abused a prescription drug at least once.

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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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Sponsor: Bill includes pain clinic regulation
COLUMBUS — Comprehensive legislation aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse in Ohio will be introduced soon at the Statehouse, one of the bill’s sponsors said.

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