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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Hospital Opens Recovery Center
Hospital opens recovery center
[rewrite]HUNTINGTON — Cabell Huntington Hospital has opened The Recovery Center, specializing in treatment for opiate addiction. Components of the program at the Recovery Center include Suboxone and Vivitrol treatment, psychological testing, individual …[/rewrite]
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Substance abuse clinic set for Madison Heights removes zoning application
[rewrite]A would-be substance abuse treatment center planned for Madison Heights has withdrawn its zoning application. The Florida-based Colonial Management Group sought a zoning permit for a clinic slated to occupy several suites of the Seminole Shopping …[/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.
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Programs: Assessing the Evidence
Substance Abuse Intensive Outpatient Programs: Assessing the Evidence
[rewrite]IOPs are alternatives to inpatient and residential treatment. They are designed to establish psychosocial supports and facilitate relapse management and coping strategies. This review assessed the evidence base for IOPs. Methods Authors searched major …[/rewrite]
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Taunton State Hospital again faces closure
[rewrite]The campus also includes a 16-bed vendor-run mental health program for intensive residential treatment. Additionally, High Point Treatment Center will open a 40-bed drug treatment unit on the campus early this year, Clifford said. The vendor-operated …[/rewrite]
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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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