Prescription Drug Addiction

Doctor On Trial For OD Deaths Of Three Patients

AP | Posted 06.01.2012

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LOS ANGELES — Prosecutors will begin presenting evidence next week in the case against a Southern California doctor accused of second-degree mur...

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Prescription Drug Addiction: A Medical Condition, Not a Moral Failure

Paul Heroux | Posted 04.30.2012

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Prescription drug addiction affects men and women, young and old, employed and unemployed, and those suffering from mental illness and those who don't. In short, no group is immune.

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Governors Target Prescription Drug Abuse

HuffingtonPost.com | John Celock | Posted 03.29.2012

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The nation's governors have begun studying prescription drug abuse and plan to develop best practices that can be used by state governments. The N...

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'Intervention': Kaylene Borrows From Kid Sister To Buy Drugs

Posted 05.26.2012

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Kaylene was clearly delusional about what was going on, even as she was in the depths of her addiction to prescription medication on "Intervention" (M...

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Why More Seniors Are Getting Addicted To Drugs

The Huffington Post | Ann Brenoff | Posted 03.12.2012

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So you thought it was just your teenagers that you had to keep away from drugs? According to addiction experts, you might need to deliver the Nancy Re...

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Painkiller Debate Rages On

Radley Balko | Posted 05.09.2012

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If there's contention in the medical community about the risk and effectiveness of painkillers, the debate gets more heated still when it comes to what sort of public policy should govern how the drugs are used.

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How I Lost My Sister To Addiction

Victoria Costello | Posted 04.26.2012

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In light of the continuing controversy surrounding Whitney Houston's death, here is a look at the science behind the central and often misunderstood concept of self-medication in addiction and recovery. My interest in this is personal. My sister Rita died of a multiple drug cocktail at age 38.

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Obama's Drug Czar Weighs In On Whitney Houston's Death

The Huffington Post | Leigh Owens | Posted 02.14.2012

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The death of singer Whitney Houston should serve to warn Americans about the danger of abusing prescription drugs, the nation's top drug official says...

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Prescription Painkillers: Protect Yourself and Your Family

Michael Friedman, L.M.S.W. | Posted 04.01.2012

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If you or someone in your family needs a prescription painkiller to manage pain -- as many people do -- you and your doctor can take steps to avoid accidental overdoses.

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The Prescription Opiate Arms Race

Gregory Bunt, M.D. | Posted 03.10.2012

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Plans for the manufacture and sale of hydrocodone pills five to 10 times more potent than is now available is a warning sign of an escalation of what we might call the "prescription opiate arms race" among pharmaceutical companies.

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Can a New 'Mother's Little Helper' Solve Our Sleep Struggles?

Deni Carise | Posted 02.05.2012

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Women today face more responsibilities than ever before. For this reason, more and more women are turning to sleep medication -- or as the New York Times dubbed it in a recent article, "Mother's New Little Helper."

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Is California Fueling A Painkiller 'Epidemic'?

| Posted 01.09.2012

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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Christina Jewett While federal authorities are calling the spike in prescription paink...

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Prescription Drug Abuse: How To Protect Your Family

Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 01.08.2012

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The work ahead is not about keeping pain medications from patients in need. It is about good medicine and public health.

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Dr. Nora Volkow: New Brain Research Helps Explain Drug Addiction

Rehema Trimiew | Posted 12.31.2011

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Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, has studied the neural pathways of addiction and believes that we've got to protec...

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The Scary Truth About Teen Prescription Drug Abuse

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 12.19.2011

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If you have teenagers, you may have established a system to keep them out of your liquor cabinet or wine fridge. But experts are now saying you should...

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Mom Tries To Sell Son, 5, For $2,000 (VIDEO)

Posted 10.22.2011

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A Florida mom with an alleged prescription drug addiction was accused by police of trying to sell her 5-year-old son for $2,000. Police said that ...

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15 Arrested In Bust For An Unusual Drug Smuggling Ring

AP | By ELLIOT SPAGAT | Posted 10.20.2011

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SAN DIEGO -- U.S. border inspectors are not only seizing drugs coming into the country from Mexico – they're making arrests for drug smuggling t...

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Why Do We Now Have a Prescription Drug Abuse Problem?

Stanton Peele | Posted 07.30.2011

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People seek most critically in addiction the certainty of an experience, especially that of powerful relief from pain and anxiety. Anything with that effect has strong addictive potential.

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Former Police Officer's Wife Sentenced For Faking Cancer

The Huffington Post | Andrea Rael | Posted 07.19.2011

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Ann Crall was sentenced to 90 days in jail for collecting almost $60,000 while faking she had cancer. Crall, 31, is married to a former officer wi...

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I Was an Ambien Junkie and Didn't Know It

Christine Egan | Posted 05.25.2011

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I didn't mean to become a junkie. It just kind of happened. My addiction to the prescription drug Ambien occurred back in 2001.

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Prescription Drug Abuse Skyrocketing

msnbc.com | Emma Ashburn | Posted 05.25.2011

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U.S. officials reported a 400 percent increase over 10 years in the proportion of Americans treated for prescription painkiller abuse and said on Thur...

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More Teens Receiving Dangerous Prescriptions

Reuters | Alison McCook | Posted 05.25.2011

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In 2007, one out of every nine teens and one out of six young adults in their 20s received prescriptions for medication that have the potential for ab...

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Parental Warning: You May Be Enabling Your Kids' Addictions Without Realizing It

Dr. Howard Samuels | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you are hearing what I hear all day from your children about how easily they score drugs and alcohol, you might not be so quick to ship them off to class without a serious, heart-to-heart talk.

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Why Rx Abuse Is Up 400 Percent (VIDEO)

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

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Pills are still considered by many as safe, or at least not as serious of a threat as other drugs -- despite widespread medication abuse PSAs and education.

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Swapping Out Addictions: Prescription Drugs During Recovery

Barb Rogers | Posted 11.17.2011

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When addicts in recovery are using, or often times abusing, prescription drugs to the same end we used and abused alcohol and illegal drugs, how much better off are we?

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