Phoenix14News: Prescription Drug Abuse Common Among College Students

Phoenix14News: Prescription drug abuse common among college students – Reporter Steve Roth looked into the abuse of prescription drugs among college students.

ONC initiative looks to curb prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

The initiative, described in a post to the Health IT Buzz blog, would be a boon to efforts to curb prescription drug abuse, writes Jennifer Frazier, a behavior health subject matter expert with ONC. "Enhancing access to PDMP programs can't happen …
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On a mission to fight drug abuse, help families

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Illegal use of potent and addictive prescription pills have pushed substance abuse to the top of the list of health concerns in Haywood County's latest community health assessment conducted annually. That's up from third place in 2008. Over the past …
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More Awareness and Treatment needed for Prescription Drug Abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Almost nightly we hear on the news or read online about another well-known personality confessing to being addicted to pain medication (sleeping pills or diet pills) that were legally prescribed for them. This phenomenon has been trending up dramatically.
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