A Harrowing Story of Opioid Withdrawal
Thursday, 02 February 2017
by SfM
Listen to an interesting opioid withdrawal story from Travis Rieder on WYPR 88.1 FM in Baltimore. Hosted by Sheilah Kast. Every day doctors write more than 650,000 opioid prescriptions, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In some of those cases, addiction follows. As a result, deaths from prescription opioids have more than
- Published in General, Prescription Drug Abuse
Prescription drug abuse – The major health challenge of our time
Monday, 23 January 2017
by SfM
The misuse of prescription drugs is endemic in the US. A 2014 survey by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) indicated that about 15 million people aged 12 or older used prescription drugs non-medically in the previous year. It also found that as many as 6.5 million people did so in a
- Published in General, Prescription Drug Abuse
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