I used to have a similar issue. I found a great app suggested by Android Central. It's called ShutApp in the Play Store. I installed it and found 84 background programs running. I ran the app and it shut down all of them. My battery drain was significantly reduced. You can White List apps like Facebook and Twitter so they are not shut down by the app. I run ShutApp several times a day to keep the background apps at bay. Finally, I have not run into ANY issues. If I start I Heart Radio in the car, close it, it keeps running so I run ShutApp to close the background portion of the app. It works great, I highly recommend it!