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Causes of Drug Abuse: With Abuse on Rise, Army Limits Addictive Meds – Cape Cod Times
Causes of Drug Abuse: With abuse on rise, Army limits addictive meds – Cape Cod Times
Faced with rising abuse of prescription drugs, the Army has limited how many painkillers a … returned from Iraq and Afghanistan with combat or training injuries that can cause chronic pain. The Veterans Administration says more than 50 percent of Iraq …
Causes of Drug Abuse – Bing News
Causes of Drug Abuse: Doctors rethink cause and treatment of addiction – Austin American-Statesman
“In the past, the specialty was very much targeted toward psychiatrists,” said Nora D. Volkow, the neuroscientist in charge of the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “It’s a gap in our training program.” She called the lack of substance-abuse education …
Causes of Drug Abuse – Bing News
Report: Chronic Pain Costly for U.S.
Prescription Drug Abuse in the News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: Chronic pain costly for U.S.
WASHINGTON — Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain — the kind that lingers for weeks to months — and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine s …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: 4-year pay freeze for Warren police commanders
Cops OK contract with concessions in health care, overtime
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Florida Morning: RoboScott, company making statewide privatization push
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: Chronic pain costly
WASHINGTON — Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain — the kind that lingers for weeks to months — and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine sai …
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Chronic Pain in Real Life: Learning From the Stars and Getting the Treatment That You Need
Prescription drug abuse has come to be one of the most overexposed – and over-glamorized – problems in American pop culture today. The public goes crazy for tales of scandal and ruination in a rich and famous person’s life – maybe it’s because we’re jealous. Or maybe we’re just so detached from famous people that it’s like watching hamsters in a cage.
The other aspect of pop culture where prescription drug use reigns as a supreme form of entertainment is primetime television – wildly popular programs like House, M.D. and Nurse Jackie, protagonized by drug-addicted medical professionals, glamorize prescription drug abuse almost to the point of being “cool,” and while shows like A&E’s Intervention highlight the dark side of addiction it’s still just drug abuse as entertainment.
Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: More Than 100 Million Suffer Lasting Pain
Prescription Drug Abuse in the News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: More than 100 million suffer lasting pain
WASHINGTON (AP) – Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain _ the kind that lingers for weeks to months _ and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday. The staggering tab: Chronic pain is …
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: More than 100 million suffer lasting pain
WASHINGTON — Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain – the kind that lingers for weeks to months – and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine said We…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: More Than 100 Million Suffer Lasting Pain
Prescription Drug Abuse in the News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Report: More than 100 million suffer lasting pain
Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain – the kind that lingers for weeks to months – and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of…
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Chronic pain takes hurtful national toll
WASHINGTON – Nearly a third of Americans experience long-lasting pain – the kind that lingers for weeks to months – and too often feel stigma rather than relief from a health care system poorly prepared to treat them, the Institute of Medicine said Wednesday.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Actress Bai Ling reveals sexual abuse
Actress Bai Ling says she is confronting a dark chapter from her past: sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of Chinese army officers.
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