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Prescription Drugs: Rampant Availability
Though prescription drugs have endured a recent popularity with users of younger and younger ages, the problem with abuse of these drugs spans from ages as young as 10 to elderly octogenarians. What...
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FDA Recommends Tighter Controls for Hydrocodone Prescriptions
Painkillers containing hydrocodone are typically the most commonly prescribed in the United States, and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently recommended tightening the regulations...
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Help Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens
The Drugs Are Coming From Inside the House: The Scary Reality of Prescription Medication Abuse When some people first hear the term War on Drugs they still probably picture a heroin junkie, maybe a...
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Police Executive Research Forum Holds Drug Summit in D.C.
Law officials met in Washington, D.C. last week to discuss possible solutions to the growing rates of opioid abuse across the country. The meeting was organized by the Police Executive Research Forum,...
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Retired NFL Players Speak Up About Painkiller Abuse in the League, File Lawsuit
The National Football League (NFL) is under fire after retired players filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking reparations for the effects of the league’s cavalier use of prescription painkillers, which many...
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Coalition Teaches Arizona Seniors About Prescription Drug Safety
It is no secret that many prescription pain medication addicts get their start by stealing from people’s medicine cabinets. Oftentimes senior citizens are the target of these thefts because they are...
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Prescription Narcotics Shown to be Ineffective for Long-Term Pain Relief
Painkillers were originally manufactured and prescribed to handle chronic pain. For patients who did not have illnesses such as cancer but did have chronic back pain or other joint pain, patients with...
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Soldier Educates Peers on the Dangers of Substance Abuse in the Military
Some people may not realize that the number of active military personnel abusing drugs is higher than the national average. Due to the mental and physical strains that soldiers are put through, many...
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U.S. Doctors Cutting Back on Painkiller Prescriptions: Study
Nearly half of the physicians surveyed in a recent John Hopkins study said they were less likely to prescribe powerful painkillers than they were just a year ago. And, around half of those surveyed...
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Does Education Level Affect the Type of Drugs People Abuse?
It is widely accepted that anyone can fall victim to a drug abuse problem. This statement remains true, and everyone should be vigilant when educating youth against drug abuse, when one decides that...
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Survey Shows Use of Alcohol, Painkillers Declining Among Youth
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) released results for the 2014 Monitoring the Future (MTF) Survey this past week. The survey outcomes show that the use of alcohol and the abuse of...
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The White House Plan for Opiate Addiction
President Obama has explained how he wants to make a dent in the amount of prescription drug abuse in our country recently. In order to lower the amount of people addicted to drugs like Oxycontin,...
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The Dangerous Practice of Mixing Alcohol and Prescription Drugs
It has been a longstanding order by most physicians that one should never mix alcohol while taking medications, especially when it involves painkillers or anti-anxiety drugs. However, some researchers...
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Emergency Room Doctors Can Help Reduce Prescription Drug Problem
ER doctors are well aware that many people addicted to prescription drugs utilize the emergency department as a way to obtain narcotic painkillers. They often go into the hospital complaining of...
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More Pill Mills Targeted in Raids
Pill mills are the term given to facilities that operate usually as pain clinics that also have pharmacies connected to them. People travel from all around to these clinics to get drugs, and the...
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Survey Looks at Perceptions about Painkiller Addiction
Prescription drug abuse is the top concern for most people when it comes to addiction, according to a recent survey. Although this year there is a sign that painkiller abuse has declined slightly,...
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Many Doctors Still Underestimate Threat of Painkillers
New research shows that some physicians are still struggling with understanding the dangers of overprescribing narcotic painkillers and the mechanism of addiction regarding the opioids. Researchers...
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Survey Finds Public Support for Tighter Control of Painkillers
Despite the fact that the prescription painkiller epidemic has been a massive problem for years in the United States, researchers have just recently conducted what they believe is the first national...
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Drugged Driving Statistics Present Dangerous Picture
For many years, the primary focus for preventing impaired driving was aimed at alcohol. Although drunk driving is certainly a deadly activity, people under the influence of other substances have...
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Majority of High School Heroin Users Started with Prescription Opioids
Researchers at New York University reported that about 75% of high school heroin users started off using prescription painkillers first. The fact that so many children have access to prescription...
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