Police say the Percocet tablets have become the drug of choice for teens and young people in their 20s, replacing the once widespread OxyContin but leading area youth down the same dangerous path of addiction and crime. “It’s an epidemic. It’s out of control,” said East Bridgewater Detective Michael Jenkins, a member of the regional … Read more
The highly addictive narcotic OxyContin (oxycodone hydrochloride) is the No. 1 drug dispensed by these clinics, and it has become a huge problem. Because the state of Florida is one of seven states that does not have a prescription-drug tracking system,* patients can go from one clinic to another and purchase pain pills without anyone … Read more
A MAN died after consuming the head shop drug MDPV, which has a similar effect to cocaine but is 20 to 30 times more potent. Read more: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/man-died-after-taking-head-shop-drug-132310.html#ixzz11Qn0WPke
The most popular medicine in the U.S. was prescribed 128 million times last year, even as a panel of experts called together by the Food and Drug Administration recommended that regulators ban it. The drug is Vicodin, a 40-year-old addictive medicine that combines the narcotic hydrocodone with acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol; the prescription … Read more