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…

Editorial: Unused prescription drugs can be disposed of safely

Filed under: prescription drug abuse

Prescription-drug abuse has risen sharply in this area, and the results are too often deadly. Many solutions are being offered, as detailed in Friday's editorial. Those remedies range from improving physician prescribing practices to getting those who …
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Thomas Koch: Governor's drug addiction initiative deserves wide support

Filed under: prescription drug abuse

In the last dozen years, and partly as a result of the “Elephant in the Living Room” report that our study committee released, we have increased treatment capacity for drug abuse, instituted a prescription drug monitoring system, taken steps to prevent …
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