Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

Who Is Responsible for the Pain-Pill Epidemic?

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What's more, no medication reliably eliminates pain in all patients, and narcotics are no exception. And there isn't good evidence that the prescription of narcotics to treat chronic, non-cancer pain is effective over long periods: most studies of …
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Prescription drug legislation unveiled

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Tom Udall unveiled legislation aimed at strategies to prevent prescription drug abuse and to improve treatment options. Udall says New Mexico has one of the highest drug overdose rates in the nation, with 40 percent of those overdoses caused primarily …
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FDA cracks down, finally, on painkillers: Our view

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*An earlier version of this editorial overstated the number of annual hydrocodone prescriptions. The deadliest drug problem in America is not heroin or cocaine or even crack cocaine. It's the abuse of perfectly legal prescription pain medications …
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