Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic: How Physicians, Pharmacists and Medical Staff Can Help
Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic: How Physicians, Pharmacists and Medical Staff Can Help – Arizona professionals speak on issues of prescription drug misuse and abuse, identifying ways the medical community is impacted and can help address the prob…
CVS Pharmacies Take Steps to Help Curb Prescription Drug Abuse
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CVS pharmacy has used its extensive physician database to identify doctors who blatantly over prescribe dangerous drugs like opioid painkillers and suspend service to those doctors. prescription drug abuse. The company evaluated its data about …
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CVS Caremark Uses Data to Combat National Prescription Drug Abuse …
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The NEJM article highlights the role pharmacies can play in helping to curb the national epidemic of prescription drug abuse. The authors also call on lawmakers and regulators at the state and federal levels to enact policy changes that mandate more …
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New Findings Could Help Improve Development of Drugs for Addiction
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Aug. 2, 2013 — Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute have described findings that could enable the development of more effective drugs for addiction with fewer side effects.
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