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Pill Mill in Southern Nevada

Prescription drug abuse continues its meteoric rise. In the last ten years deaths from prescription drug overdose has quadrupled.  In Nevada the abuse of certain prescription painkillers is evident - we consume twice the national average.  We look into the issue of pill mills and why prescription drug abuse is so prevelant.

 

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Patrick Coolican, columnist, LV Sun

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