Mental Health Month Brings Focus to Hoosier Prescription Drug Abuse

Mental Health Month brings focus to Hoosier prescription drug abuse
While news of celebrity deaths and arrests related to drug abuse may seem like isolated events, the dramatic increase of opiate addiction is a widespread epidemic to which Hoosiers are not immune. May is Mental Health Month, which provides an opportunity …
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Prescription Drug Abuse – It’s Not What The Doctor Ordered
ATLANTA, May 6, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2012, “Overdose deaths involving prescription opioid analgesics, which are medications used to treat pain, have increased to almost 17,000 …
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Special drug abuse committee heard last testimony
BOSTON (WWLP) – Efforts are being made to tackle the opioid epidemic in Massachusetts. 22News spoke with non-abusing patients who are concerned with potentially limiting their access to painkillers. Opioid abuse and hundreds of overdose deaths prompted …
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DRUG ABUSE: Feds targeting pills that hospitalized students
The girl who shared her parents' prescription pills with a classmate at a Riverside school April 25 ingested hydrocodone, a painkiller that a Drug Enforcement Administration official says is the most-abused prescription drug and whose distribution the …
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DURECT Announces Participation in Bay Area Prescription Drug Abuse Summit
CUPERTINO, Calif., May 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — DURECT Corporation (Nasdaq: DRRX) today announced that James E. Brown, President and CEO of DURECT Corporation, will be an industry speaker at the Bay Area Prescription Drug Abuse Summit on …
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Zac Efron Admits Opening Up About Drug Abuse Was A "Weight Off My Chest"
Efron spoke with Matt Lauer on NBC's Today on Monday (May 5th), about how he feels now his addiction past is no longer a secret. "Actually, it was a weight off my chest. It was great. It was a fantastic time," he told the host. The Hollywood hunk …
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