Bitter Pills Series: Prescription Oversight Lax as Overdoses Tick Up
Bitter Pills series: Prescription oversight lax as overdoses tick up
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Prescription drugs are part of the reason for punishment for nearly two of every three nurses in the region who were either sanctioned or required to get treatment for drug abuse. An Observer analysis of 113 Cape Fear region nurses who received public …
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Painkiller generation: Third of young people taking over-the-counter pills …
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PAINKILLER abuse, like all drug abuse, can cause serious health problems including depression and liver and breathing difficulties. People who take too … the more you use them. Then they can cause the problems you want relief from and create new ones.
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Prescription drugs drop-off aimed at cutting abuse
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DPS said the five most abused prescription drugs in Mississippi in 2012 were hydrocodone, which is a narcotic pain reliever; alprazolam, which goes by the brand name Xanax and is used to treat anxiety disorder; tramadol, which is a pain reliever …
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Prescriber Checkup Q&A
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Prescriber Checkup Q&A. ProPublica reporters explain the data behind Prescriber Checkup, the first database to reveal what medications doctors and other providers are giving patients under Medicare's Part D prescription drug program. … A. We found …
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