by Amanda Edwards | Jan 29, 2024 | Alcohol, Blog, ePRESS, ePRESS Blog, Opioids, Prescription Drugs, Prevention, Vaping
A guest blog by Hailey Kanipe, MPH, CPS, ICPS, Prevention Specialist. Talking to youth about substance misuse As the world grows and technology advances, youth learn about “adult subjects” earlier than ever. Every October, LRADAC’s Prevention team goes into local...
by Amanda Edwards | Nov 1, 2023 | ePRESS, ePRESS Blog, Prescription Drugs, Prevention
How often do you clean out your medicine cabinet? There are so many reasons why we might have medicine in our cabinets that we don’t use anymore. Whether our doctor changed our medicine and we have some of the old medicine left over, or whether we had surgery and have...
by Amanda Edwards | Mar 14, 2018 | Blog, Opioids
1 in 4 people who are prescribed opioids struggle with addiction (DAODAS). This number may not seem as scary until you take into account that 5 million painkiller prescriptions are filled every year in South Carolina. That’s more than one for every person in our state...