Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic

Published February 4, 2014

Prescription Drug Abuse: A Public Health Epidemic – Approximately 6.1 million Americans abuse or misuse prescription drugs. Since 1999, overdose deaths involving prescription painkillers have quadrupled and no…

Philip Seymour Hoffman dead: Oscar-winning actor lost battle against drug …

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Last year it was reported he had fallen off the wagon 23 years after he first quit booze and drugs, fearing his substance abuse would kill him. The Capote and Boogie Nights star left a clinic on the east coast of America in May last year where he had …
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Three Policies That Can Save Other Drug Users From Philip Seymour Hoffman's …

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Drug use frequently occurs in the company of others, who witness the overdose and are either too afraid to do anything at all, or, as in the 2000 film, drop the body anonymously outside of a hospital without reporting the problem, and get arrested …
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Could Legal Marijuana Help Curb Prescription Pill Abuse?

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West Virginians—currently experiencing the highest drug overdose mortality rate in the U.S.—are also convinced by a huge margin that marijuana is safer than the prescription painkiller Oxycontin. The below map explains why West Virginians might feel …
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