Prescription Pills

Woman Who Allegedly Squeezed 3 Kittens To Death On The Loose

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Video, Cats, Kittens, Mug Shots, Prescription Pills, Ashley Barnes Killed 3 Kittens, Animals in the News, Ashley Barnes, Crime News

Hopped up on a friend's prescription pills, Ashley Barnes allegedly went on a rampage, squeezing three 2-week-old kittens so hard their intestines fel...

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Relieving Pain in America

Myra J. Christopher | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Prescription Drugs, Chronic Pain, Prescription Pills, Painkiller Addiction, Prescription Painkillers, Chronic Pain Treatment, Politics News
Myra J. Christopher

Two important public health policy matters that require the attention of policy makers seem to be constantly in tension with one another: the under-treatment of chronic pain and the abuse of prescription medications.

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Pill-Popping New Yorkers Are Turning To Heroin: Report

Metro | Posted 10.18.2011

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New Yorkers are popping so many painkillers that prescriptions for oxycodone have doubled citywide since 2007 -- leading some into harder drugs like h...

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Why Do We Now Have a Prescription Drug Abuse Problem?

Stanton Peele | Posted 07.30.2011

Read More: Prescription Drug Addiction, Drug Addiction, Prescription Drugs, Prescription Pills, Addiction & Recovery, Prescription Drug Abuse, Oxycontin, Heroin, Prescription Pain Killers, Healthy Living News
Stanton Peele

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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The Patient Is A Person

Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hospitals, Psychotherapy, Doctors, Prescription Pills, Mental Health, Psychoactive-Substance, Psychiatric Inpatient, Anxiety Disorder, Pfizer, Psychosis, Psychotic, Neurontin, Home News
Dr. Ronald Ricker and Dr. Venus Nicolino

Is this what the science and art of psychotherapy and psychiatry has been reduced to? Don't talk, don't question, don't get to know the patient. The Doctor's role is to be the last part of the conveyor belt leading from the pharmaceutical plant to the patient's mouth.

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Park Slope Adderall Ring Busted

Gothamist | Ben Yakas in News on January 5, 2011 11:50 AM | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: NY Crime, Nypd, Ny News, Drugs, Pills, Prescription Pills, Drug Dealers, Brooklyn Adderall Ring, Adderall, New York News

Over the holidays, feds busted a Park Slope Adderall-trafficking ring, arresting at least one of the people who allegedly sold thousands of pills onli...

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More Teens Receiving Dangerous Prescriptions

Reuters | Alison McCook | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pharmaceuticals, Prescription Drug Addiction, Abuse-Prescription-Medication, Oxycontin, Prescription Drugs, Prescription Pills, Prescription Medication, Adderall, Prescription Painkillers, Ritalin, Prescription Drug Abuse, Home News

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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Why It's So Hard to Find Legit Psychiatric Medications

Ronald Ricker | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ronald Ricker

A psychiatrist prescribing medications that supposedly work, cause little or no harm, and are scientifically proven to meet at least these aforementioned three criteria, couldn't be further from simple.

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"Is Dirt the New Prozac?"

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Depression, Antidepressants, Prescription Drugs, Prozac, Prescription Pills, Anxiety, Outdoor Exercise, Healthy Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

If your doctor advises you to get dirty instead of taking a pill to perk up your mood, don't look at her strangely. Pride yourself on having a physician who is on the cutting edge.

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A Ban on Painkillers Helps No One

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Percocet, Prescription Painkillers, Dea, Prescription Drugs, Banning, Painkillers, Prescription Pills, Vicodin, Pills, Prescription Medication, Fda, Health, Healthy Living News
Joshua Lyon

We can't combat painkillers like any other drug epidemic by trying to eliminate the source. The medications must remain available to people who are living with debilitating diseases.

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Recent Heroin Surge: A Major Threat

Joshua Lyon | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Oxycontin, Vicodin, Heroin, War on Drugs, Drug Overdose, Overdose, Prescription Pills, Pills, Prescription Painkillers, Healthy Living News
Joshua Lyon

If you're hooked on an opiate, and you find that same high at a much cheaper price, it becomes much easier to justify using heroin.

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Pills, Placebos, and Prescription Drugs - Oh My!

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Do Placebo Drugs Work, Prescription Drugs, Placebo Effect, Generics Just as Good, Prescription Pills, Prescription Medication, Placebo Drugs, Placebo Nation, Generic Drugs, Placebo Pills, Effectiveness Placebo Drugs, Healthy Living News

It looks like pills are a popular subject this week. Yesterday, Newsweek dove in to the dangerous debate over placebo pills. No one is saying "posit...

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