Posts Tagged ‘press release’
“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes
“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes
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"National Take-Back Day": Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription …
Forbes As “National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day” edges closer, (April 26, 2014), it's a good opportunity to emphasize the importance of this day for helping to address an ongoing source of addiction, misuse, and trafficking of prescription medications. Klobuchar presses DEA to implement law to help curb prescription drug abuse Authorities ready for prescription drug takeback day Drug Take-Back Day set in Esky |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Publix Pharmacies Join Campaign Against Prescription Drug Abuse – The Ledger
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Publix Pharmacies Join Campaign Against Prescription Drug Abuse
The Ledger Prescription drug abuse “is a major problem,” said Robert Irving, director of outpatient services for Tri County Human Services, which serves Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties. “Kids get most of their prescription medication from their parents or … |
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and …
House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and …
Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee: Thank you for inviting the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a component of the National Institutes of Health, to comment on the state of the science regarding the impact of drug abuse and addiction on …
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'Faces Of Drug Arrests' Tracks Suspects' Shocking Declines Through Mugshots …
There is little arguing that the effects of street and even prescription drug abuse can dramatically alter a person's physical and mental state, sometimes irreversibly… The deterioration seen in consecutive photos is not necessarily the direct result …
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Tennessee launches additional efforts in 2013 to reduce the number of Drug …
Tennessee Department of Health staff conducted ten training sessions across the state to educate providers on the prescription drug epidemic, implications regarding the CSMD and consequences of misuse or abuse and convened a statewide meeting to …
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Fight Against Drugs Moves to Cocaine, Ketamine and Legal Highs
Fight against drugs moves to cocaine, ketamine and legal highs
AS treatment providers get a grip on helping heroin addicts, the struggle to eradicate the harmful affects of drugs is turning to those hooked on cocaine, ketamine and legal highs. Share this image. The number of addicts aged between 25-34-years-old …
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Music Festival Season and the Danger of Party Drugs
Unfortunately, the use of both legal and illegal substances—under party settings in particular—can spark overdoses, hospitalizations, and in some cases exacerbate addiction or mental health issues. Popular party drugs include cocaine, ketamine, MDMA …
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Increase in deadly designer drugs ordered online
Chief executive of Hobart addiction clinic Holyoake, Sarah Charlton, said her organisation had seen a drop in pure cannabis consumption over the past year but poly-drug use, which often included NPS, was definitely on the increase. Ms Charlton said …
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“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes
“National Take-Back Day”: Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription … – Forbes
Forbes |
"National Take-Back Day": Ridding Your Home Of Unsecured Prescription …
Forbes As “National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day” edges closer, (April 26, 2014), it's a good opportunity to emphasize the importance of this day for helping to address an ongoing source of addiction, misuse, and trafficking of prescription medications. Summit to look at 'prescription drug abuse epidemic' Be part of the solution House Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and … |
Prescription Drug Abuse – Google News
Publix Pharmacies Join Campaign Against Prescription Drug Abuse – The Ledger
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Publix Pharmacies Join Campaign Against Prescription Drug Abuse
The Ledger Prescription drug abuse “is a major problem,” said Robert Irving, director of outpatient services for Tri County Human Services, which serves Polk, Highlands and Hardee counties. “Kids get most of their prescription medication from their parents or … |
Youths Attend Drug Abuse Forum – Pueblo Chieftain
Youths attend drug abuse forum – Pueblo Chieftain
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Youths attend drug abuse forum
Pueblo Chieftain Jonathan Judge, program director with Rise Above Colorado, handled much of the presentation and presented the children with some startling statistics regarding prescription drug abuse. He said nearly 30 percent of Colorado's 12th-graders have taken a … |
Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News
FDA approves device to combat opioid drug overdose – Washington Post
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FDA approves device to combat opioid drug overdose
Washington Post “Overdose and death resulting from misuse and abuse of both prescription and illicit opioids has become a major public health concern in the United States,” Bob Rappaport, director of the FDA's division of anesthesia, analgesia and addiction products … FDA Expands Access to Overdose Antidote to Stem Opiate Addiction Epidemic FDA approves easy-to-use heroin overdose antidote US OKs overdose treatment to fight spike in painkiller deaths |
Youths Attend Drug Abuse Forum – Pueblo Chieftain
Youths attend drug abuse forum – Pueblo Chieftain
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Youths attend drug abuse forum
Pueblo Chieftain Jonathan Judge, program director with Rise Above Colorado, handled much of the presentation and presented the children with some startling statistics regarding prescription drug abuse. He said nearly 30 percent of Colorado's 12th-graders have taken a … |
Drug Abuse Statistics – Google News
Treating Drug Abuse as a Disease, Not a Crime – The Atlantic
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Treating Drug Abuse as a Disease, Not a Crime
The Atlantic In a survey released today by the Pew Research Center, 87 percent of people characterized drug abuse is either a "crisis" or a "serious problem" in the U.S. That number hasn't changed much in nearly twenty years. What has changed is how Americans are … Poll: Nationwide marijuana legalization inevitable; public remains concerned … Another poll shows Drug War policies rejected Drug Policy: America Gets It … |