Posts Tagged ‘emergency room’
When a Prescription for Pain Pills Becomes a Gateway to Addiction – KUNC
When A Prescription For Pain Pills Becomes A Gateway To Addiction – KUNC
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When A Prescription For Pain Pills Becomes A Gateway To Addiction
KUNC On the surface, the 39-year-old construction worker looks like any other patient with back pain. He came to the Washington, D.C., emergency room, where I work, in severe discomfort after moving heavy cinder blocks a few days before. The pain gets worse … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
When a Prescription for Pain Pills Becomes a Gateway to Addiction – NPR (Blog)
When A Prescription For Pain Pills Becomes A Gateway To Addiction – NPR (blog)
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When A Prescription For Pain Pills Becomes A Gateway To Addiction
NPR (blog) On the surface, the 39-year-old construction worker looks like any other patient with back pain. He came to the Washington, D.C., emergency room, where I work, in severe discomfort after moving heavy cinder blocks a few days before. The pain gets worse … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Judge: Drug Abuse Cases Are Turning Courts Into Emergency Rooms
Judge: Drug abuse cases are turning courts into emergency rooms
BOSTON – In 2012, the district courts in Quincy, Brockton and Plymouth ranked first, third and fourth in the state in the number of referrals for involuntary commitments to drug-abuse treatment centers. Quincy District Court court topped Boston's eight …
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Judge: Drug Abuse Cases Are Turning Courts Into Emergency Rooms – Enterprise News
Judge: Drug abuse cases are turning courts into emergency rooms – Enterprise News
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Judge: Drug abuse cases are turning courts into emergency rooms
Enterprise News BOSTON – In 2012, the district courts in Quincy, Brockton and Plymouth ranked first, third and fourth in the state in the number of referrals for involuntary commitments to drug–abuse treatment centers. Quincy District Court court topped Boston's eight … |
Washington County Law Enforcement Hope To Raise Community Awareness Of … – WAMC
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Washington County Law Enforcement Hope To Raise Community Awareness Of …
WAMC Washington County law enforcement officials are pushing for more community awareness of drug abuse and addiction through more oversight of pharmacies. Listen. Washington County District Attorney Tony Jordan says there are a lot of misconceptions … |
Hilton Head High Trying to Combat Student Drug–abuse Problems
Hilton Head High trying to combat student drug–abuse problems
Hilton Head Island High School is searching students and checking their hall passes more closely after several became ill after taking a combination of a prescription drug and a cold-and-cough medicine. The drugs are Xanax and Coricidin, according to …
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Doctors Warn About Dangers and Accessibility of Synthetic Drugs
Over the past few years emergency rooms across the country, like Metropolitan's, have seen an uptick in people coming in suffering from side effects related to synthetic drug use. "There's so many things that happen that people don't realize are side …
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Are energy drinks linked to drug use?
However, a survey of this sort cannot prove cause and effect, and the association could run in both directions. For example, some amphetamine users drink energy drinks to enhance the effect of the drug, and energy drinks are also often mixed with alcohol.
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The Dark Side to Energy Drinks
The dark side to energy drinks
But due to recent events, there is a growing concern about their potential health hazard. The Drug Abuse Warning Network, a health system that monitors drug-related visits to the emergency room in the U.S., reports that energy drink-related visits to …
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Rights of mentally ill key in legislative debate
Pat Risser, 61, of Ashland, who struggled for years with mental illness, said he opposes forcing people to get treatment and take medications that might have harmful side effects. “You're playing a guessing game with people's lives and civil liberties …
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Brad Henry: Pseudoephedrine's benefits are not worth its harm
This initiative has been side tracked in the past by a mirage of public outcry and economic shell games that do not take into account the societal costs of methamphetamine abuse and addiction. The Other Side:Effective solutions to war against meth …
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