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Community responds to Richmond County sheriff's prescription drop box

...collection operations through the Drug Enforcement Administration's National Take-Back Initiative. Prescription drug abuse has been growing in Richmond County, and investigators hope the collection box will help those numbers drop.Investigator...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-05-08/community-responds-ric
Kelly's mother says he took heroin, cocaine before dying

...Kelly's mother, Donna Kelly Pratte, 54, and his uncle, Lamar Williams, 52, told authorities Kelly had a history of drug abuse and experienced similar episodes in the past, according to the Fulton County police report.Paramedics found Kelly...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-05-02/kellys-mother-says-he-took-he
Sheriff's office provides drop box for expired prescription drugs

...the medicine cabinets of parents, grandparents and friends without their knowledge.Investigators said prescription drug abuse has been growing in Richmond County. They hope the new option can help bring down those numbers."All they have to...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2013-04-29/sheriffs-office-provid
Report: S.C. minibottles switch hasn't had results

...stagnant revenue since we moved to free-pour," said Lee Dutton of the South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services. "Every year since it passed, the state has had to write a check to our providers."That's because the...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-04-21/report-sc-minibottles-switch-
Local Pilot International club was formed to help others

...projector and screen to help him share the story of his traumatic brain injury.Hensley had fallen into alcohol and drug abuse and sustained the injury while driving under the influence. He was driving 85 miles per hour when he crashed his sportscar...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/richmond-neighbors/2013-01-29/local-pilot-inte
Coroner says Glynn County commissioner's death ruled suicide by GBI medical examiner

...game with friends."There's no history or even a notion of depression in Tom Sublett. There's no alcohol abuse or drug abuse," Johnson said. "He was living his life in a normal way and proceeding with the normal daily activities and holiday...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2013-02-01/coroner-says-glynn-county-com
State Web site offers info on Ga. health facilities

...in one place information on all of the facilities it regulates, including nursing homes, home-health agencies and drug-abuse treatment centers. Each with reports on state inspections and citations as well as details about management.It's...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/government/2012-11-29/state-web-site-offers-in
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Ga. launches statewide prescription drug alert

...but instead are about drugs.A drug-abuse organization announced Wednesday...carry the message "Prescription Drug Abuse -- It's Not What the Doctor Ordered...medical associations and national drug-abuse organizations.Georgia provided...

http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/crime-courts/2012-09-20/ga-launches-statewide-