Family Turns Life Around After Drug Abuse

Family turns life around after drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

It's part of an effort to eradicate prescription drug abuse which is becoming the most prevalent form of drug abuse in the state and nationwide. Along that vein, a new Indiana law requires that caregivers must use INSPECT before prescribing, dispensing …
Read more on Shelbynews

 

Doctor's arrest for writing over M in addictive prescriptions highlights

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Rockville Centre Police Commissioner Charles Gennario said that his department had arrested someone in Rockville Centre over a year ago who had easily obtained an addictive prescription medication from the doctor. That arrest helped to widen an …
Read more on New York’s PIX11 / WPIX-TV

 

Prescription drug overdoses rise

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

In an attempt to stem prescription drug abuse, an advisory panel to the Food and Drug Administration voted in January to toughen restrictions on painkillers, such as Vicodin, containing hydrocodone. The recommendation would limit access to the drugs by …
Read more on First Coast News

 


 

Generation Rx – Documentary (2008) – Documentary focusing on prescription drug addiction told by the stories of four addicts.