Tennessee prescription drug abuse News

Statistics from the Tennessee Department of Health revealed that 1,263 Tennesseans died in 2014 from opioid overdoses despite measures designed to stop the addiction. In 2014, the state saw 97 more deaths caused by opioid overdoses than in 2013, The …

Gov. Bill Haslam and Commissioner of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services Douglas Varney this week unveiled a multi-year plan to fight prescription drug abuse in Tennessee. The state estimates that in the past year, nearly 221,000 Tennesseans have used …