Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 02

Prescription Drug Abuse Summit- Treatment and Prevention Perspective- 02 –

Commentary: Bipartisan agreement on the battle against prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment

"We heard that in an effort to aggressively treat pain in our society that the pendulum has swung too far, that pain is now being over-treated and the result is a public health epidemic of prescription drug and heroin addiction." Last week, the …
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Prescription drugs can be gripping

Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment

Wendy Doolittle, chief executive officer at McKinley Hall Inc. in Springfield, has seen a dramatic shift in drug addiction in the nearly two decades she has worked at the treatment facility. “We had 39 overdose deaths in Clark County last year, and …
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