Report: Prescription Drug Abuse Database Back in Operation Following

Report: Prescription Drug Abuse Database Back In Operation Following

Filed under: prescription drug abuse help

NEW YORK (AP) _ A database that is supposed to help New York doctors spot prescription drug abusers is back in operation after it was knocked offline for four days due to a computer hardware problem. The outage frustrated some doctors, who use the …
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Lake Forest group hosts 'hard-hitting' drug abuse film screening

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NORTH CHICAGO — The first Midwest airing of “Behind the Orange Curtain,” a documentary on prescription drug abuse, left the audience at Rosalind Franklin University in shocked silence this winter. In less than an hour, they watched families in Orange …
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Rockefeller backs drug treatment bill

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"I've heard from West Virginians who want treatment for themselves or their loved ones and can't get it – like the grandmother whose only option for her addicted grandson was incarceration. In the midst of such an overwhelming prescription drug abuse …
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Prescription drug abuse persists in Ohio

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Coshocton Hospital's Emergency Department is on alert for prescription medicine abuse, said Mary Ellen Given, the hospital's marketing consultant. “We try to recognize people that are coming in for pain medication and not necessarily for medical …
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From Twitter:

Help your friends avoid the dangers of prescription drug abuse http://t.co/1kb3svuvgW http://t.co/GwfHEJOlL5 – by PDFNJ (Drug-Free New Jersey)

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RT @MorriseyForAG: Enjoyed speaking with fellow AGs at NAAG meeting. Lots to do to help WV, especially to address prescription drug abus … – by stateagmonitor (State AG Monitor)

From Twitter:

Prescription drug abuse is only one one of the many types of drug abuse out there. – by Drug_Help (Ferenc Varga)