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In a two-day period in April, three young people in Dover and Rochester died of drug overdoses.
Prescription medications – not heroin or cocaine – played a role in all of them.
The abuse of prescription drugs, from oxycontin to morphine to methadone, is a growing but little-understood problem in New Hampshire.
In the first of an occasional series, health reporter Elaine Grant examines prescription drug abuse and what the state is – and isn’t – doing about it.