Dr. Harry L. Leider on the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic

Dr. Harry L. Leider on the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic – Harry L. Leider, MD, MBA, FACPE, Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Ameritox medication monitoring solutions, discusses the epidemic of prescri…

More Awareness and Treatment needed for Prescription Drug Abuse

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Almost nightly we hear on the news or read online about another well-known personality confessing to being addicted to pain medication (sleeping pills or diet pills) that were legally prescribed for them. This phenomenon has been trending up dramatically.
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Survey Shows 1 in 6 Unemployed Workers Addicted To Drugs

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A recent report from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health says that one in six unemployed workers are addicted to drugs or alcohol. The survey showed that 17% of unemployed workers had a substance abuse problem, nearly double the percentage …
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Joe Jonas Dishes on Drugs, Demi Lovato, and More in New York Magazine Profile

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Now that he's no longer part of a boy band with his brothers, the 24-year-old dishes on everything from his sex life to his drug use in a new article — and he names names. The first-person account, which appears on Vulture, shatters the pure-as-snow …
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