Prescription Drug Abuse Can Be a Killer

The director of the Cabell County (WV) Substance Abuse Prevention Partnership is calling attention to the motor vehicle accidents caused by prescription drug abuse.

Writing in The Herald Dispatch of Huntington, WV, Anne McGee wrote that while lives are saved by prescription drugs, their misuse is a major killer.

"These drugs have the potential to kill and destroy lives, through addiction, or overdose, or the operation of motor vehicles," McGee writes.

McGee makes some suggestions to help keep everyone safe from the dangers of prescription drug abuse as well. The full story is here.