New Database Helps Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse

Published September 19, 2013

New Database Helps Prevent Prescription Drug Abuse – GLEN ROCK — As part of an effort to keep prescription drugs out of the hands of abusers, the New Jersey State Division of Consumer Affairs began a database t…

Mingo officials react to allegations against late sheriff

Filed under: prescription drug addiction help

… end the cycle of addiction that touched many families in Mingo County. But Mingo County residents are now learning that, before his death, FBI agents believed Crum illegally took prescription painkillers from a drug dealer while he was a county …
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Lawmakers pass prescription drug reform bills

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Propelled by a series of investigative reports in The Los Angeles Times, the bills would help authorities track drug-abusing patients as well as doctors who recklessly prescribe painkillers and other addictive narcotics. The bills now head back to the …
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Opioids Not Winning the Battle Against Pain, Study Suggests

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19 (HealthDay News) — Prescriptions for powerful opioid painkiller drugs have skyrocketed in the United States, but identification and treatment of pain has not improved, according to a new study. "There is … And Alexander noted that "not only have …
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