Prescription Drug Abuse Victims
Prescription Drug Abuse Victims – A video of young adults who died because of Prescription Drugs. Made this for a class. All pictures taken from The Partnership For a Drug Free America. www.drugfree.org
Substance abuse diagnoses increasing in US
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
Possibly driven by a surge in painkiller abuse, the number of drug and alcohol problems diagnosed by U.S. doctors increased by 70 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to new research. "We know that increases in prescription drug use are a big part …
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Creating Prescription Drug Awareness
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
The Safe Community and the Fairfax County Police McLean District Station hosted a forum on prescription drug use and abuse Wednesday, Oct. 17 at the McLean Community Center. The 2010-11 Fairfax County Youth Survey showed that students in the …
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Prescription painkiller abuse on the rise among teens in the U.S.
Filed under: prescription drug addiction
“Prescription drug use is the next big epidemic,” Richard Miech, Ph.D., lead author of the study and professor of sociology at CU Denver, said in a statement. “Everyone in this field has recognized that there is a big increase in the abuse of …
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From Twitter:
Prescription drug addiction triples in two decades in the USA… http://t.co/rwlWByf4 – by AfricanJade (Charlene Smith)
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US Study – Teens responsible for much prescription drug use: http://t.co/Qv5kGkaY #addiction – by EAC_64 (Eduardo Castro)
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A New #Painkiller Crackdown Targets Drug Distributorsn http://t.co/j8fJKDcA #nytimes #addiction #health http://t.co/R7kMSfra – by GreggsGift (Gregg’s Gift)