Portable Drug Test a New Addition at New Year's DUI Checkpoints

Portable drug test a new addition at New Year's DUI checkpoints
The test screens for cocaine, benzodiazepine (Xanax), methamphetamine, amphetamines, narcotic analgesics, methadone and THC representative of marijuana usage within the past few hours. City prosecutors have yet to use results from the test as …
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Doctor's death delays court date
Almost 98 percent of the prescriptions were for Schedule 2 or 3 narcotics: oxycodone, hydromorphone, methadone, hydrocodone and morphine. Following their arrest and initial court appearance in Sacramento, father and son were freed on $ 50,000 …
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VA doctors must reduce painkiller prescriptions
In another important report, Aaron Glantz of the Center for Investigative Reporting has revealed that U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs prescriptions for four highly addictive narcotics – hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone – jumped by 270 …
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