Prescription Drugs

Biggger Than Bath Salts

Subhash Kateel | Posted 06.02.2012

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Mention Miami this week and the first thing people will talk about is the "zombie" attack. Once the Twitterverse finishes with the jokes, look into the lives of both men and it stops being funny and starts being sad.

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Obama Administration Softens 'Shameful' Fight Against Cheap Drugs For Poor Countries

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.30.2012

WASHINGTON -- A change of heart from the Obama administration may pave the way to a groundbreaking global deal to provide lifesaving medications to de...

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Want To Stay Healthy? It's Going To Cost You

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Video, Health Care Costs 2012, Health Insurance Costs, Health Care Costs, Prescription Drug Costs, Prescription Drugs, Anthem Blue Cross, Health Insurance, Health Coverage, Aetna, Medication, Health Care, Business News

Medication is getting more expensive. And having insurance won't necessarily help you. A number of insurers, including Anthem Blue Cross and Aetna,...

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Trade Revolt Against Obama Intensifies

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Tpp, Ron Wyden, 2012 Elections, Wyden, Economy, Darrell Issa, Jobs, Free Trade, Obama, Buy America, Trans-Pacific Partnership, Barack Obama, Buy American, 2012, Issa, Video, Sen. Ron Wyden, Trans-Pacific, Trade, Prescription Drugs, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) introduced legislation late Wednesday to protest the Obama administration's refusal to share information about c...

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An Idea To Fix Killer Costs Of Lifesaving Drugs

HuffingtonPost.com | Zach Carter | Posted 05.19.2012

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is promoting a new plan to encourage the development of better, cheaper prescription drugs: an innovation fu...

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Rx Drugs a Growing Problem Among Teenagers

Alexandra Pisano | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prescription Drug Abuse, Mental Health, Prescription Painkillers, Prescription Drugs, Painkillers, Drug Abuse, Healthy Living Health News, Addiction and Recovery, Teens Prescription Drugs, Healthy Living News

The most dangerous drugs may be much closer to home than you think. In fact, they may already be in your home. You may be worried about your teenager's relationship with drugs, but this is probably a good time to start talking to your younger children, too.

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Act Now!

Mike Feder | Posted 05.15.2012

Read More: Comedy, Wonder Drug, Satire, Side-Effects, Advertising, Prescription Drugs, Comedy News

Have you been asking yourself: What happened to that old energy, that zest for life? Can I ever get it back? Yes, you can! Now you can leave all that doubt, worry and discomfort behind. Because now there is... SMILIZENE.

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People Are Dying of Drug Overdoses, Despite Lifesaving Medications

Erin L. Winstanley, Ph.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Fda Regulations, Opiates, Fda, Prescription Drugs, Public Health, Painkillers, Naloxone, Drug Abuse, War on Drugs, Painkiller Abuse, Addiction and Recovery, Prescription Drug Abuse, Overdose, Healthy Living News

We have waged a war against drugs instead of formulating a science-based response to a public health epidemic for which a life-saving medication is available.

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Medicare Paid $5.6 Billion To Drugstores For Questionable Billings

AP | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: George W. Bush, Prescription Drugs, Drugs, Marilyn Tavenner, Medicare, Jodi Nudelman, Health and Human Services, Medicare Fraud, Barack Obama, Video, Crime News

WASHINGTON — It would take a mighty big pill box to hold them. A pharmacy in Kansas billed Medicare for more than 1,000 prescriptions each for ...

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Will the Supreme Court Follow the GOP Plan and Force Seniors to Pay $20,000 More for Rx Drugs?

Ethan Rome | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Fidelity Investments, Income Inequality, Retirement, Mitt Romney, Prescription Drugs, Gop, Affordable Care Act, Medical Costs, Medicare, Constitution, Republicans, Politics News

Fidelity Investments, the gigantic Wall Street mutual fund company, says it will cost a retired couple $20,000 more to buy their medicines if the U.S. Supreme Court overturns the Affordable Care Act.

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Painkiller Association Closes As Senate Launches Probe

ProPublica | Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Purdue Pharma, Charles Grassley, Johnson & Johnson, American Pain Society, Vicodin, The American Pain Foundation, Propublica, The Washington Post, Video, U.S. Senate Finance Committee, American Academy of Pain Medicine, Oxycontin, Prescription Drugs, Opana, Narcotics, Center for Practical Bioethics, Endo Pharmaceuticals, Business News

A version of this story was published in The Washington Post.As the U.S. Senate Finance Committee launched an investigation Tuesday into makers of nar...

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Taking Stock and Saving Lives: How an m-Health Initiative Is Revolutionizing Health Care in Uganda

Stephanie Rudat | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Uganda, Medical Records, Mhealth, Mobile Phones, Public Health, Nonprofits, Hiv, HIV/AIDS, Africa, Prescription Drugs, Computer Science, HIV/AIDS Africa, Technology, Healthcare, Global Health, Impact News

Until recently, most health clinics in Uganda, and indeed across the continent of Africa, transmitted all of their data manually. The journey of a paper record from doctor's pad to the Ministry of Health in Kampala was treacherous at best.

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Spring Cleaning the Medicine Cabinets, and Other Ways to Combat Rx Abuse

John J. Castellani | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Takeback Programs, Drug Enforcement Administration, Prescription Drug Abuse, Smartrx, Health News, Healthy Living News

Now, more than ever, it's crucial for all of us to inventory whether we have unused and expired medicine in our homes and take immediate, safe steps to dispose of them -- before they end up in the wrong hands.

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Bernie Sanders Advocates a Free Market in AIDS Drugs

Dean Baker | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Aids, HIV/AIDS, Prescription Drugs, Pharmaceutical Industry, Budget, Drug Patents, Prize System, Business News

There are more efficient mechanisms than patent monopolies to finance drug research. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders is proposing one such mechanism, a prize system, be adopted to support research on AIDS drugs.

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Woman Spends A Night In Jail After Pharmacy Trip From Hell

Loren Berlin | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Norco, Prescription Drugs, Narcotics, CVS Pharmacies, Narcotics-Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, Cvs, Ann Lenhart, Money News

When you go get a prescription filled, you typically brace for a few bad outcomes: There's the possibility your insurance won't cover your drug or you...

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Feds' Prescription Drug Crackdown May Hit Big Chain

Reuters | Posted 04.26.2012

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* CVS says stores had nothing to gain from selling pills * US govt cracking down on prescription pain killer abuse By Ia...

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Print Your Own Prescription Pills With A 3D Printer

Posted 04.24.2012

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Scientists at the University of Glasgow in the United Kingdom have made strides in research they believe could lead to the development of at-home drug...

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String Of Embarrassing Recalls Keep Drug Company's Popular Products Off Shelves

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.18.2012

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It's going to take a while longer for Johnson & Johnson to get rid of the headaches provoked by a string of recalls of popular over-the-counter drugs....

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Many More Teens Dying From Prescription Drug Abuse, Government Study Shows

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.16.2012

Read More: Children, Prescription Drugs, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Care, Children's Health, Healthcare, Prescription Drug Abuse, Business News

An uptick in teenagers overdosing on prescription drugs drove the almost doubling of fatal poisonings among American children, the Centers for Disease...

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Chemical Warfare

Robert Koehler | Posted 04.12.2012

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To fight our insane wars, we're wrecking our soldiers' ability to live with themselves and function in society, then regulating what's left of them with chemicals, which often make things immeasurably worse.

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I Wanna Be Sedated

Suzanne Hegland | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Big Pharma, Lunesta, Over the Counter Drugs, Ambien, Advertising, Insomnia, Prescription Drugs, Sleep Aids, Fda, Prescription Sleeping Pills, Sleep Pills, Sleep, Sleep Insomnia, Sleeping Pills, Healthy Living News

Last Friday, five months after receiving approval from the FDA, pharmacists finally began doling out the newest sleep aid to the groggy hordes.

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Americans Too Poor To See The Doctor: Report

The Huffington Post | Jeffrey Young | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Obamacare, Health Care Costs, Hospitals, Prescription Drugs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Health Care, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Video, Business News

Americans took fewer prescription drugs, visited the doctor less often, and made more trips to the emergency room for treatment as unemployment and th...

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Cash-Strapped State Gets Enormous Reward For Google Investigation

AP | LAURA CRIMALDI | Posted 06.03.2012

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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (AP) — Rhode Island law enforcement agencies that participated in an investigation that resulted in Google Inc. forfeiting ...

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Governor Concerned Over Medical Marijuana Law

Concord Patch | Tony Schinella | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Governor John Lynch, Marijuana, New Hampshire Politics, New Hampshire Medical Marijuana, Prescription Drugs, Medical Marijuana, Drugs, Drug Abuse, Cancer, John Lynch, Politics News

While he has empathy for those ill patients who need medical marijuana to get through their recoveries, Gov. John Lynch, D-Hopkinton, said today that ...

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Time to Prescribe the Right Cure

The Miami Hurricane | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Miami Hurricanes, Adderall and College Students, Drug Abuse Resistance Education, Dare, Prescription Drug Abuse College Students, Drug Education, Prescription Drugs, Drug Abuse College Campus, Dare Programs, University of Miami, Drug Abuse, Adderall, Adderall Abuse, Prescription Drug Abuse, College News

Although prescription drugs are harmful, they do have a purpose for people who have a reason to take them. This does not include taking Adderall to study for a test. Too much of anything is bad, even if it comes with a prescription.

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