Notions might exist that illegal drugs and narcotics are an ill of the cities only.  Not any more.  Drugs have made their way to even rural areas, which 20 years ago, such regions could be described as 'out in the country'.

Two cases in point are Niagara New York, and Oregon.
Outline of key terms:

• Niagara, NY
• hydrocodone
• marijuana
• crack cocaine
• antiquity modals
• Oregon
• Josephine County
• heroin
• baby addicts
• methadone
• marijuana
• Cave Junction
• methamphetamine
  
• Medford
• Grants Pass
  

Further reading:

• kdrv.com
• katu.com

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The young adults, those in their 20s, do they have the levels of control over possible side-effects of some of the over-the-counter drugs they 'think' they do?

Many babies are facing the brunt of being born addicts.

Solutions?

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This is a set of excerpts from articles found ranked at easy access about babies born addicted to drugs, a popular name for a medical condition of this sort is NAS, which stands for neonatal abstinence syndrome.  Shocking numbers include statements such as, 'one addicted baby born an hour', and '1out of 13 babies is an addict'.

'Just flooding us': Tenn. spike in drug-dependent newborns is warning to nation

 Oct. 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM ET

On an average day, neonatal nurse practitioner Carla Saunder...
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"Drug Roundup

So far, more than a dozen arrests have been made in a drug roundup in Leake County [Mississippi]..."

Updated October 29, 2013
Source and full story here:
http://www.wtok.com/news/headlines/Drug-Roundup-229725531.html

"Drug Task Force Down to Four

Lauderdale County, Miss.

The war on drugs in east Mississippi took a major hit this month. With reduction in funding from the federal government to the state and from the state to local law enforcement, the East Mississippi Drug Task Force ...
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