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by Stephanie Loebs - 2007-01-18
In 2003, the National Institute on Drug Abuse reported that over six million Americans had used prescription medications for recreational purposes. Painkillers like OxyContin and Percoset are popular ...
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by Abdel Fahmy - 2007-04-20
As I have mentioned in several of my previous articles, addiction to opiates is chronic disease of the brain and should be managed as such. It is usually the result of a combination of by genetic, ps...
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by Maggie Z. Mathews - 2007-06-20
Perhaps you have heard the whispered term "Cheese" by your teenagers or their friends. You may have innocently thought that this was in simple reference to a simple trip to a local McDonald's restaura...
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by Jeffrey T. Junig - 2007-09-04
In Part One of this article I described the problems with traditional treatment of opiate addiction. Suboxone is a revolutionary alternative.Suboxone consists of two drugs; buprenorphine and naloxone...
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by Jeffrey T. Junig - 2007-09-03
Suboxone is a relatively new medication for opiate dependence that will result in a sea change in addiction treatment. Physicians currently prescribing suboxone are aware of the usefulness of this me...
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by GLORIA MACTAGGART - 2008-06-30
When parents find out their kids are taking drugs it's difficult to know where to turn. Talking to them, pleading with them, cajoling them, screaming at them - nothing really works. But it's not b...
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by Rod - 2008-07-12
On August 18, 2006, only eighteen years old and three days away from her first day in college, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon thereafter died. Emily is only one of hundred...
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by Rod - 2008-08-02
The tragic death of Malibu, CA, resident Christopher Quint recently from a lethal combination of alcohol and the benzodiazepine Xanax, illustrates the soaring epidemic of deaths across the country fro...
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by Rod MacTaggart - 2008-08-06
A real eye-opener for anyone interested in seeing what's going on across the country in the world of prescription drugs is to type the drug's name into a major search engine, such as Google or Yahoo. ...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-08-12
Lawrence County, IN, is just one of many communities around the country participating in a nationwide prescription drug "take-back" program aimed at reducing the country's soaring rate of prescrip...