PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse Aired 5-3-13

Published July 8, 2013

PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse aired 5-3-13 – In this excerpt from the PBS NewsHour, correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at what Oklahoma is doing to battle prescription drug abuse, and the addiction th…

Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse, One Log In At a Time

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

State health leaders are calling it an epidemic. There's growing evidence that tracking the number of pills doctors prescribe to potential abusers might ease the problem. But Rhode Island's fledgling prescription drug monitoring program is just getting …
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Prescription pill problem on the rise

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

“As the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., we are fully committed to doing our part to prevent prescription drug abuse,” said Kermit Crawford, president of pharmacy, health and wellness at Walgreens. “We have worked closely with the DEA over the past …
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Women dying from drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

The range indicates that at least some portion of the drugs may have been prescribed appropriately for pain, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said in an interview. If death rates were driven purely by abuse, then one …
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