PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse Aired 5-3-13
PBS NewsHour Excerpt: Prescription Drug Abuse aired 5-3-13 – In this excerpt from the PBS NewsHour, correspondent Betty Ann Bowser looks at what Oklahoma is doing to battle prescription drug abuse, and the addiction th…
Prescription drugs: Don't dismiss use
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In “The elephant in the medicine cabinet” (Aug. 11), Paul John Scott suggests that “antidepressants are addictive drugs that do not work very well” and compares the benefits of taking a prescribed medication to the benefits of pet ownership. It is a …
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Pallone visits South Plainfield to address prescription drug abuse, Medicare …
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Rep. Frank Pallone Jr., D-6th, joined community leaders at CVS Pharmacy in South Plainfield on Thursday to announce his legislation, the Medicare Prescription Drug Integrity Act, to address new reports of inappropriate payments for prescriptions of …
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One in 10 Americans have taken drugs prescribed for others: poll
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Dr. Wilson Compton, a division director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, says dosage levels of prescription drugs are particular to an individual's specific needs and warns against taking a medicine that has not been prescribed. "Simply because …
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