Prescription Drug Abuse – It’s Not What the Doctor Ordered
Prescription Drug Abuse – It’s Not What The Doctor Ordered
ATLANTA, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012, “Overdose deaths involving prescription opioid analgesics, which are medications used to treat pain, have increased to almost 17,000 …
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Drug abuse back to its dark corner?
OPINION: If there was a silver lining to the quagmire of what we yesterday could call legal highs, it was that it brought drug abuse into the light of day and gave most Kiwis a greater understanding of the magnitude of the problem. The dealers and users …
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Special drug abuse committee heard last testimony
BOSTON (WWLP) – Efforts are being made to tackle the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. 22News spoke with non-abusing patients who are concerned with potentially limiting their access to painkillers. Opioid abuse and hundreds of overdose deaths prompted …
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Ellmers on Preventing Prescription Drug Abuse — Congresswoman Ellmers had the chance to question witnesses from the DEA and FDA during a Health Subcommittee hearing entitled “Improving Predictability and T…
Zac Efron Admits Opening Up About Drug Abuse Was A "Weight Off My Chest"
Efron spoke with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on Monday (May 5th), about how he feels now his addiction past is no longer a secret. "Actually, it was a weight off my chest. It was great. It was a fantastic time," he told the host. The Hollywood hunk …
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DRUG ABUSE: Feds targeting pills that hospitalized students
The girl who shared her parents' prescription pills with a classmate at a Riverside school April 25 ingested hydrocodone, a painkiller that a Drug Enforcement Administration official says is the most-abused prescription drug and whose distribution the …
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VIEWPOINT: Turning the tide of drug abuse in our communities
While they often spoke about how to create more jobs, bring down the cost of healthcare, and get our economy moving again, there was one issue that was on a lot of people's minds—illegal drug use and how to prevent and treat it, especially in the wake …
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