Prescription Drug Abuse

Vicodin, Percocet, Oxycontin... they're easier to get than drugs like cocaine and heroin. All you need is a doctor's prescription or a good credit card online. Now addiction rates and overdoses from these perfectly legal drugs are on the rise. We'll look at who's using, the extent of the abuse and what's being done about it in the Granite State. Laura's guests are Dr. Thomas Andrew, State Medical Examiner and Jacqui Abikoff, director of the Horizons Counseling Center in Gilford and Plymouth. We'll also hear from Seddon Savage, a local doctor who sits on the Prescription Monitoring Program Task Force and Jim Pilliod, a pediatrician and State Representative from Belmont who has sponsored a bill to improve oversight and communication on prescription drug use in the state.