Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse

Responding to Prescription Drug Abuse – This webinar summarizes and classifies how communities are responding to the prescription drug abuse crisis. Crisis responses were classified using the two-d…

Law targets abuse, but impacts chronic pain sufferers

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Just last week, I had a conversation with a responsible, professional woman about a recent state law designed to reduce an increasingly prevalent public health problem: prescription drug abuse. Anyone who keeps up with the news knows that … Emergency …
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Here Are All The People Who Have Died From A Marijuana Overdose

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The police groups also make a number of additional controversial claims that marijuana use itself leads to violent behavior, suicidal thoughts and interest in harder drugs. Scientific studies have not … Sixty percent of those were related to …
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UK Researcher Fights to End Congressional Ban on Needle Exchange Funding

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She is a leading researcher in epidemiology of prescription opioid abuse in rural Appalachia, as well as HIV and other infectious complications of drug use, and the comorbidity of substance and mental disorders. She is also currently appointed in the …
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