Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug’
Question by k.nicole211: Research Proj…?
What prescription drugs are most commonly abused?
Also, where does overdose/acidental overdose sit on the list of teen deaths??
Best answer:
Answer by the-average-american
There are 3 categories in which prescription drugs are abused. They are:
-Narcotics, such as: OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet
-Depressants such as, Xanax, Valium, Librium
-Stimulants such as, Ritalin, Dexedrine, Meridia
From (http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/09/america/NA-MED-US-Drug-Overdoses.php) “The number of accidental drug overdose deaths rose from 11,155 in 1999 to 19,838 in 2004, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention”
New program launched by Gov. Kasich focuses on youth drug abuse – 21 News …
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio – A new initiative focused on youth drug abuse prevention kicked off in Youngstown. The program launched by Governor Kasich and his wife is called Start Talking. On Monday, Ohio's Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor was at East High …
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United States Preventive Services publishes recommendations on preventing …
The USPSTF conducted a systematic review of published evidence on interventions to help children and adolescents who have never used drugs to remain abstinent and interventions to help children and adolescents who are using drugs but do not meet the …
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'Know the Truth' Meeting Gives Parents Insight into Drug Problems
Know the Truth is a teenage substance abuse prevention program of Minnesota Teen Challenge; it works with teens, parents and teachers to help educate them about the dangers of substance use and how they can get help if needed. The meeting takes …
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Addiction News
For the latest addiction news, bookmark This Just In. From legal matters and celebrity troubles to addiction studies and recovery stories, this section features the hottest topics in alcohol and drug abuse news. We sort out the sometimes overwhelming …
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Sources For Prescription Drugs Often Come From Friends And Family
A new study from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has found that most people who abuse prescription painkillers get their fix from friends and family, while those who chronically abuse the addictive opioids most …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's Story and Obamacare Coverage of Drug Addiction
These risks include a family history of addiction (drug, alcohol or tobacco), people with other mental conditions (including depression, anxiety, PTSD, ADHD, and even loneliness), social or peer pressures (friends with addiction or abuse behaviors …
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Facing Cape Cod's drug addiction crisis
The high death toll may finally have brought attention to the prescription drug problem specifically and the disease of addiction in general. "We're happy to have the public outcry that is long overdue," said Ray Tamasi, CEO and president of the …
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South Jersey drug treatment providers: For heroin addicts, more inpatient care …
That's not a lot of time to see how well a law is working, but addiction treatment professionals in South Jersey have reservations about the law when it comes to a troubling trend in drug abuse. The law, the state Senate bill number of which was S881 …
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Question by sweety: Do you think my ex will stop doing drugs?
I was in a ten year relationship I used to do drugs but I have quit now for almost three years. I left my ex bc it eventually made me sick watching him still do it and be gona all the time doing it bc I no longer allowed it in the house. We have kids and have been seperated for about two years. I’m pretty happy an feel really great since changing my life around:) he still wants to be with me but he keeps lying about still doing drugs. He says he quit now for real and wants to be with us but I’m still really not trusting hom bc he has lied to my face about it so much over the years. I also feel really resentful toward him since he hasn’t really raised the kids with me he just has basically play dates and sleepovers at his parents now every other weekend. Is it worth it for me to not move on ? Do people like him never really quit? Am I wasting my time hoping he will change? Te kids want us together and that’s what is bothering me but I will never if he is still doing drugs bc he is not a nice person as soon as he runs out even if it’s only weed.
Best answer:
Answer by C.R
dont look good.
Answer by patrick
Weed? Really I thought this would be about meth way to over react.
Supporting families coping with drink and drug issues
Brave mums have told how they are coping with their sons alcohol and drug abuse thanks to a new support group for families. Claire Wadsworth is a family support development officer in East Dunbartonshire for the charity, Scottish Families Affected by …
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US Sen. Bob Casey, in Easton, supports bill that fights heroin gateway of …
Prescription Drug Abuse Press Conference View full sizeU.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., speaks today in Easton about a federal bill that aims to help the country better address prescription drug abuse. Easton Sal Panto Jr., left, and Northampton County …
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million sought for drug addiction treatment programs
ALBANY >> New York's growing heroin problem is being fueled by the state's crackdown on abuse of prescription pain medication, drug abuse experts said Tuesday, calling on legislators to provide $ 15 million for treatment programs. One of experts who …
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Ex-NBA player on drug abuse to Townsend kids: 'Tell on that friend'
Fourteen years later, he was still struggling with a drug addiction that had caused him to leave warm-ups before Celtics games to meet drug dealers, relapse on the day of the birth of one of his children, and nearly die after crashing his car into a …
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Most prescription drug abusers get pills from friends, not drug dealers: CDC
Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively uncommon source for those at highest risk for deadly overdoses, a government study found. People who abuse the …
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Question by Frickin AWESOME: Why are the drugs………?
That are scheduled, in such an odd order. LSD,weed,DMT, and others are schedule 1. Coke is schedule 2.. and some how xanax is schedule 4????
Best answer:
Answer by Wade H
Drugs are “scheduled” according to “potential for abuse”. The lower the schedule number the more likely a drug has been determined to be problematic. In the case of schedule I drugs there is no federal provision for any medical use or proscription.
Schedule II drugs are dependence causal, have a medical use determination but are not deemed as serious a threat for abuse as Schedule III drugs. Schedule IV drugs are determined to be even less a threat but have potential for abuse and do cause addiction as well. Etc.
These are somewhat accepted definitions; but there is “controversy” ~ largely from those dependent on said drugs.
Nobody questions such schedules who has tried to interdict a drug deal working the job of Deputy with the Maine Game Warden’s Service and has thus been shot 8 times (then, after he one is disarmed a minute later shot 3 more times, then hours later 2 more times ~ by 3 different gunmen ~ with 13 hours elapsing before hospital) all this by dope dealers. And should any fellow lay wounded like that for 6 or 7 hours while customers stroll though the area used by the dealers buying, and commenting how uncomfortable dying that way must be ~ but not actually lifting a cell phone to make a call ~ as I did in 1980, it’s would seriously seem unlikely that fellow would contend that marijuana is “not dangerously addicting” or has a lower “potential for abuse”, than it’s current schedule implies.
Anyone who has noted the rather obvious effects of distilled THC on a population competing with the cheat who uses and then employs his demon to remove competition from any contest he might face in life from employment to who gets the girl, would expect only fun and games to come from legalization.
Any competent legal mind would advocate for remote testing of all employees and pedestrians in public places by spectrograph analysis of breath for both smoke and distilled THC residues; because not to do so allows far worse criminal activity than speeding, and that is OK to remote test for by traffic camera ~ so why not THC ?
I’m a sober man. If I’m being doped I want to know it. 45 % of the USA NEVER USES. I suspect when we come up against a doper for a promotion all of that 45% wants to know if the competition is squirting distilled THC or date rape drugs into our drinks from 10 feet away so-as to inhibit our performance (I actually caught a fellow worker doing this in one of the factories I worked in once ~ don’t laugh, it ain’t funny, I’ve been shot through the head, the dope if there was any in that squirt from a 2 once oil bottle could have caused a seizure and killed me ~ if there was any, she claimed she was “just pulling my leg, seeing how paranoid she could make me, and seeing if a person could squirt a drink from ten feet away” ~ ). THC is orderless and colorless.
You can’t do that with liqueur, it isn’t orderless, and it’s highly reactive, changing other flavors.
Caffeine and Nicotine aren’t much of a performance inhibitor, so cheating a fellow out of his rightful job isn’t as likely if the dope uses tobacco or coffee.
So, wise up to the ways of the doper, and he looks more like the lying cheat he naturally must be, to compete against more sober and responsible people.
Augusta teen raises money for orphans
But perhaps what sets the Cony High School freshman apart from many of his peers is the hard driving he does off the track to raise money and awareness for causes that take hold of the young man's heart. It is, his dad Corey Folsom said, the … Late …
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What Is Addiction?
… plague of both desperate poverty and tortured privilege. The abuse of prescription drugs is an even more widespread problem. But what causes the addiction that lets drug abuse flourish? Is addiction a disorder, a matter of human frailty or …
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Professors research causes and solutions to doping in sports
To analyze the pervasiveness of performance enhancing drugs, what causes athletes to use them and what is being done to stop it, a panel of experts gathered Thursday for a symposium titled “How do we prevent drugs in sports?” sponsored by the …
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