FDA to Consider Bid to Tighten Narcotic Rules
FDA to consider bid to tighten narcotic rules
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But the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has again asked the FDA to consider tightening prescribing and other rules on hydrocodone drugs, as addiction and overdose deaths have soared throughout the country. Beginning Thursday, the FDA will conduct …
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Addiction treatment system implementation moving forward, committee told
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On Tuesday, Deputy Health Commissioner Barbara Cimaglio, who oversees the Division of Alcohol and Drug Abuse Programs, provided the House Human Services Committee with an update on how that system is progressing. The opioid treatment … In the …
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High blood pressure drug may help cocaine dependence
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"For so long, we believed that dopamine must be the primary target if we hoped to reduce drug craving and use; however, it has become clear that addressing other neurobiological systems is necessary if we hope to more effectively treat addiction," said …
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Teen Prescription Drug Abuse On the Rise – Clip thanks to www.medsindia.net Jason was a nationally ranked tennis player, a good student, well-groomed. His parents had no idea he was going to school and to practice walking right past their faces stoned on prescription drugs. “Modafinil, Percocets, Oxycontin, Xanax, Vicodin, Ritalin, Adderall,” he said, reeling off a list of just some of the drugs he tried since he began abusing drugs at age 13. Jay, now 17, said he had “black eyes” and “lost a lot of weight” and probably hadn’t showered in a month when he checked into The Right Step, a small drug and alcohol treatment clinic in Houston. At first, he didn’t want to be there. He is not alone. According to psychiatrist Donald Hauser, The Right Step’s medical director, pharmaceutical abuse is rampant among his young patients. “By far, the most common trend I think we’re seeing are sedative hypnotics, particularly Xanax ‘bars’ is what they call ’em and the opiates, the hydrocodone derivatives, the Vicodins, the Loracets,” Hauser said. “Almost every adolescent that comes in this program has used some of them.” National data support Hauser’s observations. Last year’s results of the Monitoring the Future study, an annual collaboration by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the University of Michigan, found a 26 percent rise in teenage abuse of Oxycontin — a powerful opiate — since 2002. Overall, the number of teens abusing prescription drugs has tripled since 1992. There’s no shortage of ways that teens obtain …