Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic
Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic — Approximately 6.1 million Americans abuse or misuse prescription drugs. Since 1999, overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers have quadrupled and no…
Hoffman found with 50 bags of heroin, addiction meds: sources
[rewrite]Multiple law enforcement sources told NBC News that authorities found six bottles of prescription drugs — including the blood pressure medication clonidine hydrochloride; the addiction treatment drug buprenorphine; the attention-deficit disorder …[/rewrite]
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Seattle Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
Seattle Treatment Center for Alcohol & Drug Addiction Announced
[rewrite]A Seattle treatment center is announcing that it is opening doors for adults and adolescents dealing with alcohol and drug addiction through Drug Addiction Treatment Centers. Statistics from a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services report reveal …[/rewrite]
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Hoffman's Heroin Points to Surge in Grim Trade
[rewrite]Drug Enforcement Agency. From 2010 to 2012, after several years of decline, heroin-related overdose deaths increased 84 percent in New York City to 382, according to Health Department statistics. Staten Island, where prescription drug addiction has …[/rewrite]
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Parent With Prescription Drug Addiction?
Question by writeyoualetter: Parent with prescription drug addiction?
[rewrite]So my mother is addicted to Morphine, Oxys, Hydrocodone/ine, Muscle Relaxers, Anti-Naseau pills and Tylenol. We are extremely poor. Me and my dad work, she doesn’t. Because he has to buy her so much stuff, I had to get a job to support myself. I’m a senior in college.
Everyday feels like an uphill battle to stay alive. I wake up every morning and think, okay, today I’m going to be alive to go back to bed. But some days it’s really hard to make it back.
Agoura MD Accused of Running Global Drug Distribution Scheme
Agoura MD accused of running global drug distribution scheme
[rewrite]Com An Agoura Hills doctor is being charged with 15 felonies related to overprescribing highly addictive prescription pills, a practice, police say, that led to at least two overdose deaths. Ventura County sheriff's detectives say 67-year-old family …[/rewrite]
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KY Attorney General Announces M for Drug Addiction Treatment
[rewrite]“We've done a tremendous job in Kentucky working together to tackle the problem of prescription drug abuse from a law enforcement perspective,”Conway said. “At the end of the day, we must increase access to treatment if we're going to stop the cycle of …[/rewrite]
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Curb on Seniors' Drugs Protested
Curb on seniors' drugs protested
[rewrite]WASHINGTON — New rules proposed by the Obama administration to limit the array of antidepressants and other prescription drugs currently available to millions of seniors have set off an intense round of lobbying by patient advocates clamoring to …[/rewrite]
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New Generation Rx Online Game Teaches Teens about Prescription Drug Abuse
[rewrite]DUBLIN, Ohio, Jan. 15, 2014 — /PRNewswire/ — In its newest educational program, the Generation Rx Initiative mixes online learning with video games to promote learning about the dangers of prescription drug misuse and abuse.[/rewrite]
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