FDA move aims to curb opiate abuse as painkiller addiction rises in county
In Pittsfield, 90 to 95 percent of break-ins and shopliftings are directly attributable to drugs, police say. A city substance abuse treatment center has seen an increase of at least 70 percent in clients treated for opiate dependency in the past three …
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Painkillers growing drug of choice
However, where in the past patients were overwhelmingly treated for addiction to heroin, the battle now was often fought against prescription drugs such as oxycodone, which is now the No 1 prescribed medication for chronic severe pain in New Zealand …
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Drug-resistant superbugs threaten century of medical advances – experts
Without antibiotics, treatments from minor surgery to major transplants could become impossible, and health-care costs are likely to spiral as we resort to newer, more expensive antibiotics and sustain longer hospital admissions." Strategies to …
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