Addictive Prescription Drugs – Types of Prescription Drugs That Are Addictive
Addictive Prescription Drugs – Types of Prescription Drugs that are Addictive – Worried about Addiction and Addictive Prescription Drugs? Call Get Off Meds at (888) 745-9950. Find more about addictive prescription drugs and get help by visiting Get Off Meds at GetOffMeds.com – Addiction to many kinds of prescription medications especially pain killers is fast becoming an American epidemic. It has been shown that a doctor’s office visit too frequently ends with a prescription being handed to the patient. Unfortunately many of these medications can be highly addictive. Types of addictive prescription drugs include painkillers such as oxycontin and vicodin; antidepressants like prozac and paxil; antipsychotics like seroquel; insomnia drugs such as the sedative-hypnotics Lunesta and Ambien and depressants (anti-anxiety medications) like Ativan. Watch this video to find out more about addictive prescription drugs youtu.be
Experts: Area drug addiction up
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The programs are designed to thwart suspected abuse or diversion and provide doctors and pharmacists with real-time information on a patients' prescription drug history, helping to avoid so-called doctor shopping. Local officials said that some people …
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Alicia Clouse, Florida Teen, Opens Up About Prescription Drug Addiction (VIDEO)
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Clouse spoke up about the existence of "pill parties," at which students would take unlabeled pills from a large bowl full of drugs, including Xanax, Oxycotin and Ecstasy. And even on a day-to-day basis, Clouse explains, it was easy to access …
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Treatment centers lack funding to help drug addiction
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For now they say they are just doing whatever they can to slow the increase in drug addiction. A study by the Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center shows that prescription pill abuse increased by nearly 300% in from 2000 to 2010.
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