From Problem to Epidemic in a Decade: Prescription Drug Abuse Trends in Rural Appalachia

From Problem to Epidemic in a Decade: Prescription Drug Abuse Trends in Rural Appalachia — “From Problem to Epidemic in a Decade: Prescription Drug Abuse Trends in Rural Appalachia” Jennifer Havens, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Behavioral Science …

Patients are becoming collateral damage in US war on drugs
[rewrite]In October the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed tightening restrictions on access to certain low-potency narcotic pain medicines in an effort to stem the rising tide of prescription-drug abuse in the United States. The new rules would require …[/rewrite]
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Doctors hear horrors of New Jersey's epidemic of prescription–drug abuse
[rewrite]New Jersey doctors had already been forewarned that prescription-drug addiction has been ravaging the state – yesterday, they learned the grim details. Prescription drugs were implicated in the deaths of more than 700 state residents in both 2011 and …[/rewrite]
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