President Clinton to Open Town Hall on Prescription Drug Abuse at Johns Hopkins University

Prescription drug abuse has been at an all time high for the last decade. No one can really say why or how this epidemic has gotten so big, but there are people who fight against drug abuse everyday. It is at an all time high amounts teenagers and it has not slow down nor does it look like it is going to stop. Prescription drugs can be very addictive if not taking responsibly and in moderate portions. Parents put their drugs down around the house and they do not expect that the child might pick it up and be curious as to what the medication is for, or what it might do to them. Help protect the children and yourselves and get as much information and education as you can on this topic and the prescription that you may be given by your doctor.

Town Hall to focus on solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic; Today Show correspondent Dr. Gail Saltz to moderate a panel discussion with United States Senator Amy Klobuchar, FDA Commissioner Margaret 

Hamburg, Former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Johns Hopkins Behavioral Economist Dr. Douglas Hough

(Baltimore, MD) — On May 13, 2014, President Bill Clinton will open a town hall meeting co-hosted by the Clinton Health Matters Initiative (CHMI) and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health to address prescription drug abuse. This date marks the one-year anniversary of President Clinton’s announcement of the Clinton Foundation's intent to address prescription drug misuse, through CHMI. This town hall will focus on the public health approach to comprehensive solutions to the prescription drug abuse epidemic.