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70How Drug Addiction Has Affected My Family
My sister Michelle and I are 6 years apart. She's the older one. Over the years, our relationship has been one of love and hate - all due to the drug addiction she faced, which I'm only now beginning to...
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53How to enter hydrocodone treatment
Are you tired of being a hydrocodone prescription junkie? Well then there is a solution but it will take action on your part.It really does not matter which prescription drug you happen to be addicted to...
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57Before You Take that Drug
In the 1960's and 1970's, Darrell Royal was a very successful football coach at the University of Texas. He was often quoted for his pithy comments on football and on life. He said, "Three things can happen...
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55Prescription Drug Addiction Among Seniors Could Double In 20 Years
The number of people 50 or older abusing prescription drugs could increase 190 percent over the next two decades, leading to unprecedented levels of elderly Americans succumbing to prescription drug...
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53Prescription Drug Addiction Can Start With Childhood ADHD Drugs
Millions of American children are being force-fed prescription drugs that most of them -- and some experts think all of them -- don't need, opening the door to potential drug abuse, dependence and...
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55LETTER TO THE FDA
Emily Jackson On January 20, 2009, we will have a new president and a new administration. One of the priorities for the new administration will be to appoint a new head of the FDA. Speaking about his...
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55Prescription Drug Addiction: A Major Epidemic With No Cure In Sight
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), and hundreds of other national, state and local agencies and institutions, are facing an epidemic as deadly as any disease that ever swept across the world:...
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55Prescription Drug Addiction Causes Half A Million Emergencies A Year
If you think prescription drugs are safe way to party, ask some of the 500,000 people who wind up in a hospital emergency ward every year fighting for their lives, or trying to claw their way back to sanity...
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53Avoiding Collateral Damage: Prescription Drug Addiction and Antidepressants
In spite of an FDA Public Health Advisory in 2004 warning about the serious risks associated with all antidepressants, the number of Americans taking the drugs has climbed to 17 million, and prescription...
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56Soaring Prescription Drug Addiction Deaths Prompt Special Utah Study
It was too late for medical drug detox for 317 Utah residents who died last year from prescription drugs, prompting a new health department study of all such deaths looking for common factors. The Utah...
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