Medication Assisted Treatment – In response to the nation’s epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction. The death toll from prescription painkiller overdose across the US has increased more than five times in the past decade (from 3000 deaths in 1999 to 15500 in 2009), prompting the Centers for Disease Control to define the problem as an epidemic.
Vicodin: The Jury Is Out
Filed under:painkiller addiction
Due to the increase in painkiller abuse and overdoses, the Drug Enforcement Administration once again asked the FDA to consider tightening prescribing and other rules on hydrocodone drugs. Beginning Thursday, the FDA will conduct a 2-day hearing on … Read more on MedPage Today
FDA mulls prescription painkiller problem
Filed under:painkiller addiction
The Food and Drug Administration is opening up discussion on a longstanding and difficult issue: how to ease chronic pain while minimizing addiction to painkillers. The agency is collecting public comments online and at a two-day meeting in February. Read more on GIMBY (blog)
Police Seize 4000 In Drug Investigation
Filed under:painkiller addiction
Methadone and suboxone are used to treat addiction to treat drugs like heroin. Oxycodone is a sometimes-addictive painkiller. Smith is due in court January 29 on charges of possession of narcotics with intent to sell, failure to keep narcotics in the … Read more on CBS Local
Medication Assisted Treatment
Medication Assisted Treatment – In response to the nation’s epidemic of prescription painkiller addiction. The death toll from prescription painkiller overdose across the US has increased more than five times in the past decade (from 3000 deaths in 1999 to 15500 in 2009), prompting the Centers for Disease Control to define the problem as an epidemic.
Vicodin: The Jury Is Out
Filed under: painkiller addiction
Due to the increase in painkiller abuse and overdoses, the Drug Enforcement Administration once again asked the FDA to consider tightening prescribing and other rules on hydrocodone drugs. Beginning Thursday, the FDA will conduct a 2-day hearing on …
Read more on MedPage Today
FDA mulls prescription painkiller problem
Filed under: painkiller addiction
The Food and Drug Administration is opening up discussion on a longstanding and difficult issue: how to ease chronic pain while minimizing addiction to painkillers. The agency is collecting public comments online and at a two-day meeting in February.
Read more on GIMBY (blog)
Police Seize 4000 In Drug Investigation
Filed under: painkiller addiction
Methadone and suboxone are used to treat addiction to treat drugs like heroin. Oxycodone is a sometimes-addictive painkiller. Smith is due in court January 29 on charges of possession of narcotics with intent to sell, failure to keep narcotics in the …
Read more on CBS Local