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Greg Giraldo, 44, was one of the handful of celebrities I've spotted when going to new york City. I'll at all times remember the little frisson I felt when I walked previous him on a sidewalk in times Square.

That's a tenuous interconnection at best. but it even now helps make me feel even even worse than I otherwise may about the deprivation of him and his talent to such an insidious cause.

The abuse of prescription prescriptions has long been on the rise in the U.S. to the previous couple of years, particularly among teenagers. It's a particularly troubling trouble by which we parents may be taking part, unwittingly, in making these often-addictive prescriptions obtainable to our kids.

Last Saturday the U.S. medicine Enforcement administration sponsored a medicine-chest clean-out, during which individuals had been urged to clear out their cabinets and deliver unneeded medications to designated drop-off spots. (For people who didn't consider part, right here are rules for disposing of prescription drugs.)

Here's much more information from the professor at the Ohio state college college of Pharmacy and Cardinal well being about prescription medicine abuse and what we can do about it.