Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Published August 17, 2013

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

Pallone visits South Plainfield to address prescription drug abuse, Medicare …

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th, joined community leaders at CVS Pharmacy in South Plainfield on Thursday to announce his legislation, the Medicare Prescription Drug Integrity Act, to address new reports of inappropriate payments for prescriptions of …
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Prescription addiction: Better monitoring can reduce medication harm

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Painkillers have become a prescription for addiction for millions of Americans. In this evolving epidemic, death rates from overdoses are rising much faster for women than they are for men, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports.
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