Prescription drug addiction: what you need to know
Prescription drug addiction: what you need to know
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The sad truth is that doctors apparently do not, as a rule, receive training about drug addiction — or any other kind of addictive behaviors across the board. These physicians are armed with loaded guns — in the form of their prescription pads — but …
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Prescription drug use epidemic linked to violent crime
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Prescription drug abuse in San Luis Obispo County has skyrocketed to almost twice the state average. County public health officials said the abuse of prescription drugs is the nation's fastest growing drug problem. In San Luis Obispo County, 44 people …
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Prescription Drug Abuse Keeps People in Pain
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About a dozen protestors were at the state capitol Wednesday because they can't get pharmacies to fill their prescriptions for painkillers. Karen Stateler injured her neck and back 20 years ago, but just last year her pharmacist stopped carrying the …
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Pilot programs look to increase use of prescription drug monitoring databases
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s Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and other departments in the federal government that prescription drug monitoring databases are an effective tool in combating prescription drug abuse, which the Centers for Disease …
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