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(Examiner, May 27) A new study shows that every day, at least 1.2 million college students are drinking and smoking marijuana. 

(WLTX, May 19) South Carolina teens' top choices for drugs are consuming heroin, pot and prescription drugs, according to the DEA. 

(The Post Star, May 22) It's still an uphill battle to make addiction recovery a priority for the state. 

(The Christian Science Monitor, May 22) The number of opioid prescriptions has declined for the first time in two decades.

(Portland Press Herald, May 20) Kratom, sold as a plant-based herbal supplement used to treat chronic pain, is being banned in six states and possibly more.

(Boston.com, May 14) New Hampshire is entertaining proposals to require tougher drug education for students in the wake of the opioid crisis nationwide. 

(WHIO, May 11) Ohio teens are getting high from eating flower seeds, 

(Health News Florida, May 15) In Jacksonville, Florida, the number of overdoses from heroin laced with fentanyl skyrocketed this year.

(KARE, May 13) Deaths increased 11 percent between 2014 and 2015, and is four times greater than 2000.

(WATE.com, May 7) More than 50 percent of teens who have abused opioids say they got them from a parent's medicine closet.