Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse Among Wounded Soldiers Uneven, Report Says
Fighting prescription drug abuse among wounded soldiers uneven, report says
Even after a dozen years of war, top Pentagon health officials have yet to impose uniform standards on fighting prescription medication abuse among troops wounded in combat, according to a Defense Department inspector general’s report issued Friday.
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Prescription drug abuse is foe we can beat
In Tennessee, we face an epidemic of prescription … drug overdoses kill more Tennesseans than car accidents or crime, and in 2013, we ranked eighth in the nation for drug overdose deaths. On a personal level as an orthopedic trauma surgeon …
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Rx Drug Abuse: Common and Dangerous
Prescription drug abuse appears to be on the rise in this country. Wilson Compton, MD, director of the division of epidemiology services and prevention research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), says the reasons aren’t clear. But he suspects …
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Clark anti-drug program gets statewide attention
Ohio's death rate from overdoses has jumped 440 percent since 1990, driven largely by prescription and multiple-drug abuse. And every day, 2,500 youths ages 12-17 abuse a prescription pain killer for the first time. The magnitude of the problem hit …
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