Prescription Drug Abuse: Healthbeat Brooklyn

Prescription Drug Abuse: Healthbeat Brooklyn – Prescription Drug Abuse: Addiction to prescription drugs is on the rise. Andrew Kolodny, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at Maimonides, tells host Monica Sweeney, MD, why OxyContin and the like are now common gateway drugs, why they’re so dangerous, and why doctors are often so poor at spotting the problem. From Brooklyn Independent Television's Healthbeat Brooklyn Episode 37. Original Airdate: 1/5/2010 www.bricartsmedia.org

Prescription Drug Abuse Still a Focus for Pinellas County

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

According to Pinellas County officials, every 32 hours someone dies of a drug overdose in Pinellas County. In 2010, 280 people died of accidental drug overdoses with 249 of these deaths being due to abuse of prescription pain medication. To help combat …
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Go to the real source to help fight drug abuse

Filed under: drug addiction news 2010

Numbers tell the story about the alarming and deadly rise in prescription drug abuse. Just how deadly became clear when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention produced a chart showing that more people died from drug overdoses in 2010 than …
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