{"id":627161,"date":"2017-06-14T16:11:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T21:11:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627161"},"modified":"2017-06-15T16:11:02","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:11:02","slug":"east-texas-agency-focuses-on-prescription-med-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627161","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Agency Focuses on Prescription Med Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/th-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/th-1-189x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-627166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/th-1-189x200.jpg 189w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/06\/th-1.jpg 283w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>MARSHALL &#8212; Next Step Community Solutions has three coalitions working across thirteen East Texas counties to combat underage drinking and drug use.  Program specialist Staci Clark says, &#8220;Adults don&#8217;t think that prescription meds are as dangerous because they&#8217;re written by doctors, but we know that in this region, we have one of the highest&#8230;as far as insurance claims for opioid prescriptions as anywhere else in the state.&#8221;  Clark says teens are increasingly abusing un-used prescriptions they find at home. Recently, the organization received a grant from the state that will fund a secure prescription drug dropoff location so left over, un-used prescriptions can be properly destroyed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MARSHALL &#8212; Next Step Community Solutions has three coalitions working across thirteen East Texas counties to combat underage drinking and drug use. Program specialist Staci Clark says, &#8220;Adults don&#8217;t think that prescription meds are as dangerous because they&#8217;re written by doctors, but we know that in this region, we have one of the highest&#8230;as far &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=627161\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texas Agency Focuses on Prescription Med Abuse<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":627166,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 15:57:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=627161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":627167,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627161\/revisions\/627167"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/627166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=627161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=627161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=627161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}