Drug News

By COLLEEN MENSCHING – Staff Writer “New drug-testing practices are one-way officials hope to learn more about what they believe is a growing problem in San Diego County —- abuse of oxycodone. The expensive, potentially addictive synthetic opiate is prescribed to treat pain but is abused for the heroinlike high it gives. While officials believe … Read more

Two city employees were charged with intent to deliver prescription painkillers such as oxycodone (Oxycontin), Adderall and hydromorphone (Dilaudid). Stashes of the prescription drugs were found in a county vehicle that the employees had been using. By Aaron C. Davis Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, April 2, 2009; 12:41 PM “Two Prince George’s County public … Read more