A doctor in Georgia looked the other way as addicts filled the waiting room to get more drugs. Thirteen patients have died so far, and Dr. Green, along with his assistant and a pharmacist, face 118 federal charges that include administering and prescribing drugs "not for a legitimate medical purpose and outside the usual course of professional practice."
The tragic death of Malibu, CA, resident Christopher Quint recently from a lethal combination of alcohol and the benzodiazepine Xanax, illustrates the soaring epidemic of deaths across the country from prescription drug addiction, especially when mixed with alcohol.Quint’s lifeless body was found early one morning last month in a local park by a neighbor walking their dog. It was of interest to
On August 18, 2006, only eighteen years old and three days away from her first day in college, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon thereafter died. Emily is only one of hundreds of Americans, and thousands world-wide, who have lost their lives to powerful heroin-like prescription painkillers, unaware of the devastating potential for harm from such drugs, dangers that range
Answers In Motion the parent company of Thumball has a major opportunity to continue it's goal of energizing education and improving communication.The big pharmaceutical companies, PhRMA have taken a stand on the giving of gifts both large and small to health care professional. Drug company sales reps are discouraged from promoting their brands of medications with gifts of appreciation (Can you sa
If nothing else, it’s just too easy to get prescription meds that you don’t need when you’re a player in Hollywood. That’s one of the main foci of Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Drug Addiction airing on VH1 this week.
Dr. Drew, as many of you most likely already know, is a beacon of sincerity shining his message of hope and recovery like a spotlight on the glaring issue of drug and alcohol addic
Obesity is a condition that arrives when someone put on extra weight to a level so that it becomes a serious health condition and can endanger their health. Obesity is basically the result of eating too many calories without doing required physical activities. It is normally measured with help of BMI (Body Mass Index) i.e. [...]
Obesity TreatmentObesity treatment can be done via number of ways like diet programmes, physical exercise and of course, prescription drugs like Acomplia, Xenical. Diet programmes and exercise do help in reducing weight buy it works slowly. On the other hand, prescription drugs like Acomplia, Xenical are faster ways to obesity treatment. These are manufactured by renowned pharmaceutical companies and clinically approved for use.Acomplia (Rimonabant) for Obesity treatmentAcomplia is a prescription drug for obesity treatment. A French pharmaceutical firm, Sanoti-Aventis manufactures Acomplia slimming pills, which have been approved for sale in the UK and many European countries.Acomplia contains Rimonabant as the active ingredient which works basically by reducing craving and urge to eat an
The colors are lovely, the shapes delightful, their dangerous allure is magical. The results can be deadly. They are medications that can be readily found in most medicine cabinets across America, the medications that can be life-saving when used properly by the person for whom they are [...]
Looking over the current news about the opioid painkiller OxyContin, we can see there’s not much change today from any other day in the last year or so. This is a drug that, despite its usefulness for helping serious chronic pain sufferers, has created a dark side of prescription drug addiction and crime, and led [...]
Millions of people take prescription medications responsibly; however, an estimated 48 million people (ages 12 and older) have used prescription drugs for nonmedical reasons in their lifetimes. This represents approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population. The abuse of certain prescription drugs-opioids, central nervous system (CNS) depressants, and stimulants- can alter the brain’s activity and [...]
Sales growth reaches the lowest level since 1961 as generics, lack of new products, Medicare and safety concerns take their toll.The sales rate of prescription medications slowed by more than half in 2007 to levels not seen since the early 1960s, according to a report released Wednesday.The report from IMS Health said the prescription market [...]
My prescription drug addiction almost killed me and I swore to the end it really wasn’t a prescription drug addiction, but I was only taking the prescription medication the doctor prescribed. The one thing I left out is that I was seeing more than one doctor and taking over four times the amount that was prescribed.
Loritab Drug Addiction
I hurt my back one day and went to see a doctor who prescribed soma which then became loritab for the pain I claimed was there. Now let’s be clear, my back did hurt, but not that bad and certainly not bad enough for loritab. I loved the feeling loritab gave me and I had heard about drug addiction and prescription drug addiction but I thought I could control the loritab. Well I was wrong, it wasn’t wrong before my addiction to loritab
Smiling, happy people riding bikes, running through grassy fields, playing with kids in sunny Utopian worlds. The cause for all this tremendous joy? According to the commercials this scene takes place in, they are enjoying the benefits of the newest prescription drug on the market. Find out how big pharma advertising can effect your health [...]
Purdue Pharma, makers of the now infamous OxyContin, told the public in 2001 and for several subsequent years, that OxyContin had a lower risk of abuse and addiction than other prescription painkillers. The drug took the country by storm and, unfortunately, the users of the drug did the same with hospital ERs, drug detox and [...]
Purdue Pharma, makers of the now infamous OxyContin, told the public in 2001 and for several subsequent years, that OxyContin had a lower risk of abuse and addiction than other prescription painkillers. The drug took the country by storm and, unfortunately, the users of the drug did the same with hospital ERs, drug detox and [...]
There are numbers of people being victimized by illegal drugs that tend to paralyze their lives. That’s only one side of drug addiction. As darker as anybody can think, the other side of the coin are those being preyed by prescription drug addiction. Surprisingly, it causes death if the addicted person will not be treated and given care.
With the problem of drug abuse in the society, there is also a solution. Drug rehabs are build to treat those who are addicted to drugs. One of the drug rehabs that offers help and care is the Cliffside Malibu drug rehab centers which are located in Los Angeles County north of Zuma Beach. This is a great place because it overlooks the Pacific Ocean which brings refreshing air to those in need help. They offer professional help for the addicts and return to their normal life.
Cliffside Malibu cares not only for those who are addicted to prescription drugs but also to those who are alcoholics and those who are having eating disorders and depressi
Many people view drug abuse and addiction as strictly a social problem. Parents, teens, older adults, and other members of the community tend to characterize people who take drugs as morally weak or as having criminal tendencies. They believe that drug abusers and addicts should be able to stop taking drugs if they are willing to change their behavior.
These myths have not only stereotyped those with drug-related problems, but also their families, their communities, and the health care professionals who work with them. Drug abuse and addiction comprise a public health problem that affects many people and has wide-ranging social consequences. It is Prescription Drug Addiction’s goal to help the public replace its myths and long-held mistaken beliefs about drug abuse and addiction with scientific evidence that addiction is a chronic, relapsing, and treatable disease. Only best site for Prescription Drug Addiction.
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Byron Dorgan (D-North Dakota) on Capital Hill at a Senate hearing. Photo by: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque U.S. Senators have vowed to move on legislation that would allow for the importation of prescription drugs from other countries that are cheaper. In the past such legislation did not pass because of such strong resistance from drug companies and regulators. A group of Republican and Democratic Senators said that the plan would provide money so that the Food and Drug Administration could make sure that each of the imported drugs was safe before they were allowed to be imported to patients. "I believe this legislation puts in place an effective regulatory framework to make importation of FDA-approved drugs safe for consumers," Sen. Byron Dorgan, a North Dakota Democrat, said at a hearing. Senator Dorgan said that, "[the goal was to] create a little competition in the marketplace so we can put a real downward pressure on prescription drug prices." Through this legislat
Teen marijuana use is low because of increasing prescription drug abuse.
February 15, 2007 -- Teenagers are using less marijuana these days - but making up for it by abusing more prescription drugs, often filched from their families' medicine cabinets, according to a shocking report released yesterday by White House drug czar John Walters. "Fifty-seven percent of them say they get them free
