Cracking Down on Prescription Drug Abuse

Cracking Down on Prescription Drug Abuse –

DiGirolamo pitches bills to help curb drug overdoses

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

The Office of Drug Control Policy has labeled prescription drugs as the "country's fastest growing drug problem," DiGirolamo noted in his memo attached to H.B. 317. "Prescription drug abuse is absolutely epidemic," DiGirolamo said. "We've got to start …
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Prescription addiction: Better monitoring can reduce medication harm

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Painkillers have become a prescription for addiction for millions of Americans. In this evolving epidemic, death rates from overdoses are rising much faster for women than they are for men, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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