ALERT: Parents … Learn What Your Teens Are Up to Now
ALERT: Parents … Learn What Your Teens Are Up to Now
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Nearly 1,000 Tampa-Bay area high school students were recently introduced to WAKE UP!, a comprehensive, school-based community program aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse and first time use among American teenagers. The WAKE UP! town hall …
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Pills prove a prescription for addiction
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Some doctors now believe elderly people – the group most commonly prescribed opioids – are selling their drugs or passing them on to demanding friends and relatives who are misusing them. The phenomenon, known as ''fossil pharming'' … GP and …
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Panel examines link between chronic pain, prescription drug abuse
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"He really believed this was something that was helping him," she said. But after several … Through The Steve Rummler Hope Foundation, the couple now advocates and raises awareness of the connection between chronic pain and the disease of addiction.
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In US, an Epidemic of Prescription Drug Abuse – This is the VOA Special English Health Report from voaspecialenglish.com | http Officials in the United States say deadly abuse of painkillers and other prescription drugs has reached epidemic levels. More than thirty-six thousand people died from drug overdoses in two thousand eight, the latest year available. That was almost as many as from road crashes. More than half of the overdoses involved drugs that need a doctor’s approval. And three-fourths of those deaths involved what are called opioid pain relievers. These include drugs like methadone; morphine; hydrocodone, also known as Vicodin; and oxycodone, or OxyContin. Death rates from prescription drugs were highest among people forty-five to fifty-four years old.A recent government report said painkiller deaths more than tripled in the past decade. They now top the number of heroin and cocaine deaths combined. The Obama administration released a plan last year to try to deal with the problem. Some abusers seek help at places like the Malibu Beach Recovery Center near Los Angeles. They learn yoga and other ways to deal with anxiety, stress and pain. Joan Borsten heads the center. She says stopping is difficult because “in the case of pain pills, the body has stopped producing its natural defenses to pain,” and users have to have more and more. Around the country, special drug courts work with addicts to get them counseling and treatment. Mary Ann Gunn is a retired drug-court judge. She now appears on “Last Shot With …
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