St. Bernard makes big push to crack down on prescription drug deaths

Published July 14, 2010

St. Bernard makes big push to crack down on prescription drug deaths
These days a person addicted to drugs doesn’t need to look beyond the medicine cabinet. So drug agents and doctors are sending out a warning and being proactive so they can stop the next person from being a victim. Last year prescription drugs took the lives of nearly a dozen people in St. Bernard Parish. In 2009 we had 23 fatality drug overdoses, half of that was heroin related, the other half …
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