Teens Addicted to Prescription Drugs

Teens Addicted to Prescription Drugs – In this clip from the Hazelden video “Prescription Drug Abuse: A Prevention Video,” teens discuss their addictions to prescription drugs and over-the-counter…

Herald News: A drug epidemic spreads

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One of the more troubling aspects of the report, and with no apparent remedy, is the steady rise in prescription drug use, namely, the culture of casual prescription painkiller abuse that has developed in the last couple of decades not only in New …
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Study: Almost 7 in 10 of US adults take prescription drugs

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Close to 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two drugs, according to Mayo Clinic and Olmsted Medical Center researchers. Twenty percent of patients are on five or more medications. The most commonly …
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Painkiller plague: 18 American women die every day from prescription drugs

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By 2010, 40 percent of all overdose deaths were women, most of them middle-aged who took prescription painkillers. The CDC found that women ages 45 to 54 were most likely to ingest a fatal dose of prescription drugs, followed closely by women ages 55 …
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