Prescription Drug Abuse Increases Drastically in 20 Years: Painkiller Use Stabilizes
Prescription Drug Abuse Increases Drastically in 20 Years: Painkiller Use Stabilizes
After an increase of opioid prescriptions that went from 76 million to 210 million over a 20-year span, researchers believe that the prescriptions and consumption of these painkillers have finally stabilized. Like Us on Facebook The results …
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Doctors form prescription drug abuse task force
HARRISBURG – Describing prescription drug abuse as a growing “crisis” in Pennsylvania, members of the state medical community announced the formation of a multi-specialty physician panel to address the problem. Dr. David Talenti, vice …
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De Blasio cites education as way to stem Rx drug abuse scourge
CITY HALL — Asked how he plans to deal with the city’s prescription drug epidemic, Mayor Bill de Blasio fell back on a familiar refrain: With pre-kindergarten and after-school programs. Prescription drug and heroin abuse, singled out on Monday as “an …
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Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
Moreover, these officials defended their fight against prescription-drug abuse, saying those efforts prevented … “At the same time, many of us involved in drug policy from the 1980s onward saw heroin on the decline for a long period.”
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Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and …
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Identify your role in battle against drug abuse
The move from abusing prescribed opiates to heroin is very easy. The high is the same and the drug cartels have done what any good business does: play down the harm of the product, make it cheap and easily available, and target it to script drug users …
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