Prescription Drug Abuse, Addiction, and Detoxing

Published March 23, 2014

Prescription Drug Abuse, Addiction, and Detoxing – Opiate abuse and addiction can have serious effects. As this video explains, some people have a biological predisposition to prescription painkiller addictio…

UN Agency Calls For Greater Investment In Prevention, Treatment Of Drug Abuse
Increasingly, prescription drug abuse – often legally obtained medication by a friend or a family member who no longer needs it or is not using it for medical purposes – is outpacing the rates for illegal drugs in some countries. "There is an erroneous …
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Fighting heroin will take whole community
As OxyContin was reformulated and efforts to curb prescription drug abuse were getting off of the ground, it was a natural and predictable transition for drug abusers to turn from prescription medications to another opioid. Coupled with the lower cost …
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