prescription drug abuse

Program Would Attack Substance Abuse Through Workplace

Program would attack substance abuse through workplace

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The board wants five companies to sign up for a pilot program that will help them address challenges, such as recreational marijuana use, prescription drug abuse, alcohol abuse and addiction, with solutions. “The workplace is a mighty place to make a …
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Acura Pharmaceuticals Announces Top-Line Results of a Clinical Study

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How Drug Dependence Becomes Drug Addiction

How Drug Dependence Becomes Drug Addiction

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There used to be a line between “drugs” and “medications.” Today they are most often one and the same. The line between dependence and addiction is easy to cross. Dependence is inevitable with repeated use. Anyone who is prescribed opiates, …
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Prescription drug abuse: Untangling the harm

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Prescription drug issues have recently become a plight that has garnered much concern and it is due largely to the steady and unacceptable rise of overdose deaths from prescription (legal) drugs. Both Illicit and legal drugs must be examined by four …
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If Pennington Gap Is Dying, Drug Abuse May Be What's Killing It

If Pennington Gap is dying, drug abuse may be what's killing it

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Pack said the prescription drug abuse craze started in the 1990s because physician groups made a significant push to treat pain. At the same time, powerful prescription pain medicines, like Lortab and OxyContin, hit the market. When people become …
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Jerry Brown Considers Prison Alliance Between Private Company, Union

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ABUSING PAINKILLERS

ABUSING PAINKILLERS

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“The epidemic of non-medical use prescription drugs, principally opiate painkillers such as Vicodin and OxyContin – both of which are extremely addictive – has been developing for more than a decade and accelerating for the past five years,” says Ron …
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Medical licensing board considers 1-year delay of toxicology tests for some

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Letter: A Smart Card

Letter: A smart card

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What might help in tracking prescribed drug usage is a “smart card”. The idea emerged from community discussion at the Healthcare Forum hosted last April by the Community Partnerships at Adams State University. Already in use in France (“Carte Vitale”) …
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Alleged burglars hide in beans; Officers catch man, woman fleeing from rural home

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Grayson County Doctor Gets Probation for 'misbranding' of Birth-Control Device

Grayson County doctor gets probation for 'misbranding' of birth-control device

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Kentucky Attorney General Jack Conway announced Monday the sentencing of a Grayson County obstetrician/gynecologist for using in his practice a birth-control device that had not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Dr. James Buck was …
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Police: Man involved in human trafficking and promoting prostitution

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