Drug Abuse Methadone: Feds Refuse to Limit Production of Deadly Oxycodone
Drug Abuse Methadone: Feds refuse to limit production of deadly Oxycodone
By Guy Taylor, Special to the Times Tuesday, November 1, 2011 An epidemic of Oxycodone abuse has struck America in the last decade. The number of emergency room visits stemming from nonmedical abuse of the narcotic prescription painkiller drug rose by 256 percent between 2004 and 2009, according to the U.S. government’s Drug Abuse Warning Network. In Florida, the Medical Examiners Commission …
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Arrests mark U.S. prescription drug abuse crackdown
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – U.S. authorities arrested 22 people in Florida on Friday, including pharmacists and doctors, in a crackdown against prescription drug abuse that officials say is the nation’s fastest growing drug problem.
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Drug-addicted babies difficult to treat
These babies cry differently. They ache. They burn with fever. They shake. “Drugs are the single, solitary reason they’re here,” said Carla Sanders, a neonatal nurse practitioner at East Tennessee Children’s Hospital. “They want to be consoled, but they can’t be consoled. Our nurses go home at the end of the day in tears.”
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Drug Abuse Methadone: Deaths From Abuse of Painkillers Triple in a Decade: CDC
TUESDAY, Nov. 1 (HealthDay News) — The number of deaths from prescription drug overdoses has tripled in a decade, hitting a peak of 36,000 fatalities in 2008, U.S. health officials reported Tuesday.
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