Posts Tagged ‘prescription drug’
Clinical trial testing new treatment for marijuana addiction
Behavioral Health Services of Pickens County is accepting marijuana smokers ages 18-50 for the trial funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), according to Margaret K. Garrett, research liaison for the treatment center. “Generally we are …
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Georgia Medical Cannabis Bill Amended, Heads to House Floor
The University of Mississippi, in 1986, contracted with the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the university's lab to grow, harvest, and process cannabis and to ship it to licensed facilities across the country for research. In the bill …
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Home + School Programs Modestly Slow Teen Prescription Drug Abuse
As a result, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has recommended restricting access to painkillers such as Percocet, Oxycontin, and Vicodin. “These drugs are very available, and highly addictive,” said Max Crowley, Ph.D., an NIH Research Fellow at …
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Prevalence of high school seniors' marijuana use is expected to increase with …
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, and Monitoring the Future principal investigators, had no role in analysis, interpretation of results, or in the decision to submit the manuscript for …
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Australian Olympic swimming star Grant Hackett in US for prescription drug …
Grant Hackett's father says the Olympic swimming champion is 'in denial' following his arrival in the United States to enter rehab over his addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox. Retired policeman Neville Hackett told Nine News today Grant will …
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US Drug "War" Destroys Rain Forests
It seems that the drug war in Mexico, fueled by the misguided anti-drug policies of the United States and the Mexican government (relying on military action and violence instead legalization and reform) has driven the drug gangs deep into the remotest …
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Denise Crosby: Heroin fight is slowly gaining momentum
… nasal spray Narcan device. The DuPage County Health Department has helped form a program to address the heroin epidemic by training police officers in the use of Narcan, a drug that can reverse a heroin overdose. | Jon Langham~for Sun-Times Media …
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DEA Asks Public To Report Prescription Drug Abuse Through Text
Drug Enforcement Agency Encourages Text-Reporting Of Illicit Narcotic Activity. As America fights a prescription drug abuse epidemic, the Drug Enforcement Administration in Atlanta is testing a new text-message reporting system for illegal sales and use.
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RAYSAC Radar: Prescription drug abuse leads to Heroin
Adding to the problem is the fact that today's heroin is as much as 15 times as potent as the heroin of decades past. When you combine this factor with the low price and increased accessibility of the drug, teens are in grave danger. Even when it wasn …
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EXCLUSIVE: Australian Olympic swimming star Grant Hackett flies to USA to …
Olympic swimming champion Grant Hackett is on his way to the United States to enter rehab over his addiction to the prescription drug Stilnox, Mail Online can exclusively reveal. Hackett left Australia on Tuesday afternoon for America to undergo a …
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Hackett heads to US to treat drug addiction
Australian swimming great Grant Hackett has flown to the United States to have treatment for an addiction to a sleeping medication, his manager has confirmed. Hackett heads to US to treat drug addiction – Swimming PA Photos. Hackett, who won 1,500 …
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OZY's Guest Walk-On: Governor Sam Brownback
And of course, the “family” — the definition of which we dug in on. Now he finds … I'm saying that inaccurately but to emphasize a point — which is [that] 60-plus percent of our inmates now have a mental illness, substance-abuse problem or both …
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Tell CMS to protect appropriate palliative care prescribing
This is a call to action to comment on CMS-4159-P. The proposed rule revises the Medicare Advantage program (Part C) regulations and prescription drug benefit program (Part D) regulations. As stated in the Executive Summary, one of the goals is to …
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Internet, drug use help fuel increases in prostitution
While police and prosecutors here blame the increases statewide and locally on Kentucky's drug abuse problem, the Internet has also changed the way those who practice the world's oldest profession do business, making it a little easier for them to find …
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Heroin abuse at 'epidemic' level in South Florida –drug report
Deaths from heroin – now more potent and widely available than ever – rose 89 percent statewide from 62 in 2011 to 117 in 2012, with the problem reaching epidemic proportions in South Florida, according to a report by the National Institute on Drug …
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Prescription drug abuse is foe we can beat
In Tennessee, we face an epidemic of prescription drug abuse. We are second per capita nationally for overuse of these medications. Consider these alarming statistics: In 2010, on average, for each adult across our state, 51 pills of hydrocodone, 22 …
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