Prescription Drugs Cause More Overdose Deaths Than Heroin and Cocaine Combined
With the prescription drug abuse epidemic still in full force, it might not come as a surprise that the latest statistics show that prescription drugs cause more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine...
View ArticleHow Prescription Drug-Abusing Teens Become Heroin Addicts
After marijuana, prescriptions are the most commonly abused drugs by American teenagers, and this habit is turning our youth into heroin addicts. Narcotic painkillers, potent drugs that bring relief to...
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Prescription Monitoring Programs Failing Public on Overdose Prevention
New findings from an American research group show that state-level prescription drug monitoring programs in the U.S. commonly fail to incorporate overdose-related issues into their website content,...
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Peers, Not Peer Pressure, Blamed for Prescription Drug Abuse in Young Adults
A new study from researchers at Purdue University and Hunter College suggests that while peers do influence teen and young adult prescription drug abuse, peer pressure does not play as much of a role...
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How to Talk to Teens about Adderall Abuse
Adderall and other medications for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder are stimulants and prescription-only, controlled substances. Because of certain effects that these drugs produce, they are...
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Why Prescription Sharing can have Deadly Consequences for Teens
Prescription drugs are among the most commonly abused substances by teens, and many get them from their friends and peers. Teens often fail to recognize the dangers of abusing prescriptions. They...
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