prescription drug addiction
prescription drug addiction
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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 MACTAGGART - 2008-07-15
A panel of addiction experts say Nevada's skyrocketing abuse of prescription narcotics -- the highest in the nation -- is caused by doctors who don't take the time to examine a patient's history ...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-07-15
Eighty-five percent of the 365 web sites selling highly addictive and dangerous controlled substances require no prescription, according to a study just released by Columbia University researchers...
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by Gloria MacTaggart - 2008-07-25
Years ago, when parents thought their kids weren't the type to take drugs, they were probably right. Now there's about a one in five chance they're wrong. What's really fuelling prescription drug addi...
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by Rod - 2008-07-29
Australian citizens are up in arms about hundreds of thousands of prescriptions for SSRI-type anti-depressants such as Zoloft and Prozac being written for children despite warnings that they're unsafe...
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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...
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by Rod - 2008-08-31
Congress has declared August as "Medicine Abuse Awareness Month" in response to the colossally expensive consequences of the prescription drug addiction and abuse across America. The soaring increase ...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-09-04
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and hundreds of other national, state and local agencies and institutions, are facing an epidemic as deadly as any disease that ever swept across the w...
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by ROD MACTAGGART - 2008-09-09
Continuing the rising trend from earlier years, more young adults abused prescription pain drugs in 2007, while their use of other illicit drugs fell. A report from the Substance Abuse and Mental ...