FDA Likely to Add Limits on Painkillers

Published January 28, 2013

FDA Likely to Add Limits on Painkillers

Filed under: prescription drug abuse help

The recommendation, which the drug agency is likely to follow, would limit access to the drugs by making them harder to prescribe, a major policy change that advocates said could help ease the growing problem of addiction to painkillers, which exploded …
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Girl Scouts try to earn drug abuse awareness badge at ETSU pharmacy college

Filed under: prescription drug abuse help

Jake Peters, second-year pharmacy student and committee chair for Generation Rx, said the group “focuses on prescription drug abuse and educating the community about what it is and how we can help ourselves and help those around us to avoid the …
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NYPD fights prescription drug theft with tracking tech in pill bottles

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Detailed by CBS News earlier today, representatives within the New York Police Department will be working with pharmacies in the New York City area to help catch thieves that steal prescription drugs. Called “bait bottles” by the NYPD, fake packaging …
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