Prescription Drugs

Prescription Drug Abuse Part 1


 

Prescription Drug Abuse Part 1 – Prescription Drug Abuse Part 1 (part 2 airs in Dec. 2010) What is prescription drug abuse? How big of a problem is it? A special performance by the Ohio Stat…

 

Monitoring Prescription Drugs

Filed under: prescription drug abuse

There has been a dramatic increase in prescription drug abuse and deaths in recent years. South Dakota is now trying to attack the problem through a prescription drug monitoring program. As a family medicine doctor for more than 30 years and the …
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Oklahoma Drug Rehab Facilities | Outpatient Rehab Centers | Oklahoma Drug Rehab Facilities


 

Oklahoma Drug Rehab Facilities | Outpatient Rehab Centers | Oklahoma Drug Rehab Facilities – http://rehabilitationoklahoma.org Oklahoma Drug Rehab Facilities treats dependency to alcohol, marijuana, prescription drugs, and more by means of detox, and…

 

CMS proposes far-reaching changes to the Medicare Part D prescription drug

Filed under: outpatient drug treatment programs

On January 10, 2014, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") published a proposed rule ("Proposed Rule") setting forth sweeping changes to the Medicare Program's outpatient prescription drug benefit ("Part D") program and additional …
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What Are the Dangers of Prescription Drug Abuse???

Question by knanreys: what are the dangers of prescription drug abuse???
directed to students and private health professionals???

Best answer:

Answer by J. A. M.
You can die….

What do you think? Answer below!

 

Medical group to propose legislation aimed at preventing abuse of prescription

Filed under: prescription drug abuse

The Rhode Island Medical Society plans to propose legislation intended to prevent the abuse of prescription drugs. The legislation would require doctors, nurses, dentists and others to register with the state's prescription-drug database when they …
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If Prescription Drugs Are Terribly Abused by Teens, Why Isn’t Anyone Doing Anything About It?

Question by Kaden: If prescription drugs are terribly abused by teens, why isn’t anyone doing anything about it?
Prescription drugs are abused all the time and most pills out there are dangerous and can cause health issues in the future even if it’s not abused.
It seems like there is a pill for everything yet no one acknowledges that most pills out there are bad for you and can cause harm in the future, why?

Best answer:

Answer by Tink
No one is getting high off blood pressure, bone density, gout, menopause, etc, etc, medication.

Short Documentary About Prescription Drug Abuse


 

Short Documentary About Prescription Drug Abuse – In the addiction process, people find that they slowly begin to lose touch with their values and morals. In search for a fix, their lives slowly dwindle into…

 

New Program Seeks to Stop Teen Rx Drug Abuse

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

They said Colorado ranks as the number two state regarding the amount of people who abuse prescription drugs, and they said more than 29 percent of teens admit to abusing pills. The Rise Above Colorado campaign utilizes all the forms of modern …
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Should Parents Be More Concerned About Weed or Prescription Drugs When It Comes to Their Children?

Question by Joe B: Should parents be more concerned about weed or prescription drugs when it comes to their children?
In today’s society from your personal opinion, which is more popular and which should the government be concerned about?

Clearly in the past it was weed, do you believe this should remain the focal point of the governments propaganda or should they shift to prescription drug abuse?

I know when I was a kid we had anti drug lessons in health but I don’t recall anything regarding prescription drugs.

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