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Education needed to curb opioid epidemic
An extension specialist in Ohio is using a traveling medicine cabinet to bring more attention to the opioid epidemic in rural America.
Theresa Ferrari says the display educates people on just how easily opioids can be accessed.
“Everyone has a bathroom and a medicine cabinet in their house, but lurking in that medicine cabinet could be the pathway to something more serious in terms of opioid addiction,” she says. “Some of the common prescription medications that people might receive for legitimate health concerns are some of the things that are leading to more serious issues.”
She tells Brownfield opioids are an issue in rural areas just as much, if not more than urban areas.
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