Oxy Task Force

08/18/2015

Attention: The San Diego Rx Abuse Task Force has an updated page with current postings and info.

Please like the new page (linked below) as this page will be shut down in 30 days.

https://m.facebook.com/SanDiegoRxAbuseTaskForce

The Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force is a multi-agency group created to address prescription drug abuse in San Diego County. Goal: Reduce access and motivation to use prescription drugs in ways other than prescribed through policy, education, health and

08/17/2010

: Rx Drug Summit Addresses Rise in Overdose Deaths

San Diego County held a summit Friday to address the rising number of overdose deaths. In the county, prescription drug deaths rose by 60 percent from 2005 to 2009, according to data from the Medical Examiner’s Office.

07/28/2010

New York Times: Washington State Moves to Tighten Controls on Pain Killers

07/28/2010

NCT Letter to the Editor: NCT Needs to do Some Homework

07/27/2010

Sacrament Bee: Teens, Young Adults Abuse OxyContin in Northern California (Great, comprehensive story)

OxyContin, a highly addictive narcotic that doctors prescribe to treat chronic pain, has hooked the %22Just Say No%22 generation. It has become a party drug favored by young, often middle-class people, and the trend is exploding in Northern California.

07/26/2010

NCT Letters to the Editor: Prevention is the Goal & What Was Reason for Oxy Story

07/26/2010

NCT Letters to the Editor: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand

Boxer only wants to tax us

07/26/2010

NCT Editorial: Drug abuse? Don't Skip Older Folks

County officials are right to be concerned about what they perceive to be an increased abuse of the dangerously addictive

07/26/2010

NCT: Overstating the Oxycodone Problem

For nearly two years, the county's top leaders ---- the sheriff, the district attorney, supervisors ---- have declared abuse of

07/07/2010

NBC/ Cox 4's Corrie Vaus: Tear-Jerking Interviews with Parents working with the Oxy Task Force

Parents' bond is Oxycontin and its devastating impact on their children's lives, linked reports Channel 4 San Diego.

06/28/2010

"Oxy Abuse Kills" PSAs Take Home 5 Emmys Saturday! View the "Oxy Abuse Kills" PSA's “Loaded” (http://bit.ly/1GcYtZ) and “Flashes” (http://bit.ly/4eKBC7). See the list of 2010 Emmy Recipients:http://www.nataspsw.org/Emmy2010Recipients.pdf

San Diego County launched a multi-agency Oxycontin task force.PSA #1 "Loaded"

06/22/2010

San Diego County's First Permanent Prescription Drug Drop-Off Program Approved Today by San Diego County Board of Supervisors!