FORUM: Prescription Drug Abuse Deals Death

Published September 27, 2012

FORUM: Prescription drug abuse deals death

Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment

Other key efforts include prevention, treatment, and enforcement efforts to reduce the motivation to abuse prescription drugs. Like illicit drugs, illegal use and abuse of prescriptions carries the same societal concerns —- addiction and crime. In …
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PSYCHIATRIST WORKED ON TREATING ADDICTION

Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction Treatment

Dr. Griffith Edwards, a psychiatrist who helped establish addiction medicine as a science, formulating definitions of drug and alcohol dependence used worldwide to diagnose and treat substance abuse, died Sept. 13 in a hospice near his home in …
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Drug Abuse Summit to tap justice system, medical field, policymakers to …

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In recent years, prescription drug abuse has come to the forefront, leading to a statewide crackdown July 27 in Vero Beach, the alleged epicenter of a network of pain clinics throughout Florida. … Months before that, the foundation, through its Gate …
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