Poorly Managed Pain Relief Can Have Devastating Consequences for Addicts
Poorly managed pain relief can have devastating consequences for addicts
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With addiction to prescribed painkillers now the largest drug-related problem in the USA – causing more deaths annually than heroin and cocaine combined – and prescribed narcotics on the rise in the UK, the report warns that this is fast becoming a …
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Candy Finnigan on the move from TV to talk in Webster
Filed under: prescription drug addiction treatment
WEBSTER — Candy Finnigan, the addiction specialist featured on “Intervention,” the Emmy-winning A&E documentary series that chronicled real-life addicts and their efforts to get sober, is coming to town. At the request of her … In a phone interview …
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State's heroin problem growing, study shows
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Banta-Green found the largest increases in heroin use and abuse in Washington state were outside of metropolitan areas, where drug treatment and awareness are lowest. Overdose deaths from heroin or related prescription drugs more than doubled in …
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Is your child abusing prescription drugs
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This, he acknowledges, may be a problem of affluent and academically ambitious communities, and parents may have many reasons for not recognizing the possibility that their kids might be using. These parents, he says, “may see prescription drugs …
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