How Drug Dependence Becomes Drug Addiction

How Drug Dependence Becomes Drug Addiction

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

There used to be a line between “drugs” and “medications.” Today they are most often one and the same. The line between dependence and addiction is easy to cross. Dependence is inevitable with repeated use. Anyone who is prescribed opiates, …
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Prescription drug abuse: Untangling the harm

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

Prescription drug issues have recently become a plight that has garnered much concern and it is due largely to the steady and unacceptable rise of overdose deaths from prescription (legal) drugs. Both Illicit and legal drugs must be examined by four …
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Pharmacy school uses drop boxes in study of prescription drug abuse

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

KINGSPORT — Steel, locked boxes stationed outside several local law enforcement agencies, including the Kingsport Police Department and Sullivan County Sheriff's Office, may eventually provide new insights on the region's abuse of prescription drugs.
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GenerationRX: Prescription Drug Abuse (Part 2) – 2009 CBI National Student Production Awards Winner: Best Student Documentary Producers: Harry Fleckenstein, Missy Stankowski Director: Steven Klink Editor: T…