Prescription Addiction: Better Monitoring Can Reduce Medication Harm

Prescription addiction: Better monitoring can reduce medication harm
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In this evolving epidemic, death rates from overdoses are rising much faster for women than they are for men, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports. Today more women die from … For men and women, more than 16,000 deaths — 43 …
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Guest editorial: Vermont must rally in war against heroin
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Because of public pressure, the makers of OxyContin figured out different ways to manufacture the pill, ways that defy the needs of those who used to abuse the drug. Instead of being able to crush the pill to get the immediate and full effects of the …
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Washington County men to be tried separately for 2011 slaying of W.Va. woman
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Stitley was treated with Narcan twice for drug intoxication, first by emergency responders at state police headquarters and then at the hospital, officials testified. Sgt. J.D. Burkhart testified that it appeared Stitley was taking a drink from a …
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