Ease the pain

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 1.2 million emergency room visits in Oklahoma that year were related to the misuse or abuse of prescription drugs, an increase of 98 percent since 2004. Dr. Hal Vorse. Credit: Mark …
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Alarm raised about drug addiction's toll on Cape

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

But even while he reassured his mother that he wasn't tempted and would not relapse that night, the drug had already won, she said. The next day, Sept. 26, 2010, Johnson-Lavender got a phone call from her son's friend. They couldn't wake him.
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Maine doctors requiring random drug tests before writing prescriptions for …

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

In an effort to combat Maine's high rate of prescription drug addiction, doctors are asking patients to sign a controlled-substances agreement that, in part, allows the doctor to ask for a blood or urine sample at any time to ensure patients are taking …
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NIH Nixes Idea of Creating a Single Abuse and Addiction Institute

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Collins had previously supported the creation of a single institute that would house and fund addiction and substance abuse studies of both drugs and alcohol, saying in response to the SMRB report in 2010 that "the formation of a single, new institute …
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