Lac Courte Oreilles Band struggling with widespread prescription drug abuse
The Lac Courte Oreilles Health Center in Sawyer County is at the center of the prescription drug abuse storm on the Lac Courte Oreilles reservation. A veteran doctor was terminated in January, and the health center's medical director's contract wasn't …
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Cory Monteith, 'Glee' star, completes rehab for drug abuse after admitting …
The “Glee” star “voluntarily admitted himself to a treatment facility for substance addiction,” his rep told People in late March. Monteith, 30, and his supportive girlfriend Lea Michele, 29, were spotted at Los Angeles International Airport on Friday …
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BYU researchers design new pill bottle aimed at reducing drug abuse
“The fact that there isn't a solution to the drug overdose epidemic really drove us,” said Dallin Swiss, a mechanical engineering senior on the team, in a BYU press release. “This provides a missing piece to that national dilemma, and so it matters …
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