Letter: Action Can Help Limit Prescription Drug Abuse

Letter: Action can help limit prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment

Although we're not in the business of treating addiction, we now know that addiction's grip on the brain can lead any person to do things they otherwise might not, like shoplifting, driving impaired or even stealing from a friend or relative. In fact …
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Our View: State should lift limits on drug abuse treatment

Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment

For more than a decade, prescription-drug abuse has taken a toll in Maine in the form of crime, overdoses and deaths. click image to enlarge. A retroactive two-year limit on state funding for methadone and buprenorphine – the most effective drugs for …
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State drug abuse, awareness chief says cost thwarts drug treatment

Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment

Setting up collection boxes for prescription drugs at local police stations so children can't steal drugs from the family medicine cabinet, which often is a starting point toward addiction. • Training physicians to identify addicts so early …
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Prescription Drugs – Sean Ward – Video Mashup Project, Life and Health HLTH 103, 10:00 i do not own the rights.

 

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