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Prescription Pad Fraud Plays Role in Abuse Surge – San Jose Mercury News
Prescription Drug Abuse: Prescription pad fraud plays role in abuse surge – San Jose Mercury News
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Prescription pad fraud plays role in abuse surge
San Jose Mercury News By GREG RISLING AP LOS ANGELES—The small pads that doctors use to scribble out prescriptions, a seemingly innocent part of the medical profession, have played a role in the surge of prescription drug abuse. Take a diagnostic imaging center in the San … |
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Prescription Drug Abuse: Governor Signs Prescription Drug Abuse Bill – WDEF News 12
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Governor Signs Prescription Drug Abuse Bill
WDEF News 12 The average Tennessee resident gets 18 prescriptions filled a year, many for pain-killers like hydrocodone and oxycodone. Governor Bill Haslam has now signed a bill to stop doctor-shoppers and prescription drug abusers. Drug monitoring measure becomes law with Haslam's signature Haslam signs Prescription Drug Bill Governor Haslam Signs Bill Against Prescription Drug Abuse |
Two New Resources to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse – Medscape News
Drug Addiction: Two New Resources to Curb Prescription Drug Abuse – Medscape News
Prescription drug abuse, misuse, and overdose are major concerns facing this country and others, and they only seem to be getting worse. Medscape recently spoke with Dr. Elinore McCance-Katz, Professor of Psychiatry at University of California …
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Drug Addiction: Ohio must sustain anti-drug funding: editorial – Cleveland Plain Dealer
The logic might best be described as drug-addled. As drug-related deaths climb, Gov. John Kasich says addressing drug abuse in the state is a top priority. A recent study by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner’s Office documents a spike in …
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Drug Addiction: Brain Networks Linked to Teen Drug Abuse – Voice of America
An international team of researchers has discovered regions of the brain that might help scientists understand why some teenagers abuse drugs and others are able to resist the temptation. Researchers say the brain differences make some young people more …
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Drug Addiction: Mother Day plea – Drug Addiction and Child Development: The Consequences – Examiner
Drug addiction and child development are not terms that fit together positively. Drugs used by a mother during the prenatal period are extremely dangerous for a baby and can cause seriousand long-term developmental delays. When a pregnant woman …
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Drug Addiction: The Faces of Meth: Meet recovering addicts in Hampton Roads – WVEC
Hall says Patrica and Steven still have a long way to go in beating addiction. According to the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, meth use was halved over the past five years. But another set of numbers from the Drug Enforcement …
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Teen Drug Abuse Becoming an Epidemic, Must Be Addressed – FOX News
Causes of Drug Abuse: Teen drug abuse becoming an epidemic, must be addressed – FOX News
deaths from drug overdose and abuse now exceed deaths from motor vehicle accidents in the U.S. The statistics revealed the first time that drugs surpassed car accidents as one of the leading causes of death since the government first began …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Painkiller abuse causes more pain – Chicago Sun-Times
Of course, someone keeps prescribing these drugs and selling them. And consider this: About one in four teens will abuse prescription drugs before they graduate from high school. If that doesn’t scare you, nothing will.
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Improved Drug Treatment for Prisoners Could Save Billions in Criminal Justice Costs – Newswise
The model accounts for substance abuse as a chronic disease, as well as differences in age, gender, race and ethnicity, and drug use and treatment history. The model also estimates the benefits of treatment throughout an individual’s lifetime and tracks …
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Hooked: Why Bad Habits Are Hard to Break – CBS News
Drug Addiction: Hooked: Why bad habits are hard to break – CBS News
Dr. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has revolutionized how science and medicine view addiction: as a disease, not a character defect. Morley Safer reports. In the battle against addiction, “just say no” is magical …
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Drug Addiction: Drug-overdose antidote is put into addicts’ hands – nola.com
Steve Wohlen lay on his front lawn in West Bridgewater, Mass., blue, unconscious and barely breathing, overdosing on heroin. His mother ran outside, frantically assembling a pen-like canister. Her heart pounding, she dropped to her knees and …
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Drug Addiction: Teen Drug Abuse Linked to ‘Impulsive’ Brains – msnbc.com
A brain network associated with impulsivity is linked to teen drug abuse, new research finds. Teens with diminished activity in a neural network in the front part of the brain are more likely to experiment with drugs, cigarettes and alcohol in early …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Methadone Clinics Feeling Pain of State Budget Cuts – Bangor Daily News
Causes of Drug Abuse: Methadone clinics feeling pain of state budget cuts – Bangor Daily News
According to a 2011 federal report, Maine tops the nation in the number of residents seeking treatment for prescription drug abuse. Py said the Office of Substance Abuse is working with clinics to cope with the reimbursement cut. Clinics also …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Addicts and treatment providers plead to halt state funding cuts – Cleveland Plain Dealer
It then apportions some of the money to local community boards to pay for substance abuse-related services … the issue needed to be addressed with law enforcement and drug treatment. Stacey Frohnapfel-Hasson, communications chief for the …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Jamison Monroe, Founder of Newport Academy, Brings Critically Acclaimed Addiction Documentary to the Newport Beach Film Festival – Yahoo Finance
Monroe, a regular network news contributor about addiction and global advocate for proper adolescent addiction treatment, is one of the buzz-worthy documentary’s producers and a champion for putting an end to the prescription drug abuse epidemic …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Los Angeles Dodgers – TeamReport – Chicago Tribune
was suspended for 50 games for a second violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and Treatment Program for a drug of abuse. BY THE NUMBERS: 7 — Saves for Javy Guerra, the most ever by a Dodger through 14 team games. QUOTE TO NOTE …
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Causes of Drug Abuse: Rockland County starts drug court to handle misdemeanors, focus on treatment – Democrat and Chronicle
Rockland County has launched a Misdemeanor Drug Court designed to keep low-level substance abusers out of prison by efficiently placing them in community-based treatment programs … misdemeanor substance abuse offenders across Rockland who …
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Drug Addiction: Survey Reveals Shocking Levels of Teen Drinking, Drug Abuse – CBS News
Drug Addiction: Survey reveals shocking levels of teen drinking, drug abuse – CBS News
(CBS News) – Drinking and drug use may begin early for a lot of young Americans. A new study shows that by the time most teens reach late adolescence, most of them have drank alcohol and abused illicit substances. The study, published in the …
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Drug Addiction: Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard recounts drug abuse, bulimia in book – CBS News
(AP) Amanda Beard is happily married and a proud mom, finally at peace after years of struggling at various times with depression, bulimia, drug abuse and toxic relationships with famous men while feeling unworthy of the swimming success that …
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Drug Addiction: Painkiller sales soar, fuel drug addiction – Daily Herald
NEW YORK — Sales of the nation’s two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients’ suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic.
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Drug Addiction: Russell Brand To Be In Drug Addiction Documentary – My Fox Boston
(NewsCore) – Russell Brand will feature in a UK television documentary about drug addiction, it was revealed Saturday. The former heroin addict, 36, confirmed he was in talks with the BBC about making the program, The Sun reported. Katy Perry’s …
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