Painkiller, Sedative Prescribing Fell With Central Drug Net

Painkiller, sedative prescribing fell with central drug net

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Inappropriate prescriptions for drugs prone to misuse and addiction, such as opioid painkillers, decreased when British Columbia linked its pharmacies and hospitals with a real-time monitoring system, researchers have found. … associated with large …
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Real-time prescription data may cut opioid abuse

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Real-time prescription data may cut opioid abuse … After British Columbia introduced a province-wide prescription database in 1995, there was a sudden drop in the number of inappropriate prescriptions of the two types of drugs, researchers found. "I …
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Mogadishu’s Street Children | Drug Addiction in Somalia – SUBSCRIBE for Daily High-Definition Videos from Somalia Hosted by www.keydmedia.net – Drug addiction is an uncontrolled, devastating problem for the lawless land of Somalia. In a country torn by decades of war, famine, drought and wholesale. Alcohol and drug abuse are rapidly increasing and claiming lives in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to humanitarian and official sources. The increase was related to the large number of unemployed youths and freelance gunmen in the city, “who have nothing better to do”, one aid worker told Keydmedia Inc. http www.facebook.com www.youtube.com www.twitter.com Copyright © 2012 Keydmedia Inc. All rights reserved