Are Doctors Contributing to the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic?
Are Doctors Contributing to the Prescription Drug Abuse Epidemic?
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Doctors write 300 million prescriptions for painkillers every year, enough for every adult American to be medicated 24 hours a day for a month. That statistic is in the Los Angeles Times' investigative series on the role doctors and pharmacists play in …
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Girl Scouts try to earn drug abuse awareness badge at ETSU pharmacy college
Filed under: prescription drug abuse
Jake Peters, second-year pharmacy student and committee chair for Generation Rx, said the group “focuses on prescription drug abuse and educating the community about what it is and how we can help ourselves and help those around us to avoid the …
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Carteret sheriff to pursue funds for prescription drug investigator
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14 meeting of the Board of Commissioners about the abuse of prescription drugs and trends seen locally and beyond. Buck said approximately half of all the drug cases seen by the sheriff's office involve the illegal possession and/or sale and delivery …
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