Prescription Pills Addiction News

Q13 FOX
Kent City Council approves temporary, six-month ban on safe drug-consumption site
Q13 FOX
Cooke was part of King County's Heroin and Prescription Opiate Addiction Task Force and said safe drug-consumption sites found in Canada, Europe and Australia have been proven to reduce the number of addicts dying from overdose. “The real hope is to ...

NBCNews.com
Doctors From Top Medical Schools Prescribe Fewer Opioid Painkillers
NBCNews.com
Opioid overdose deaths have doubled since 2000 and many of those fatalities were caused by drugs that were legally prescribed by physicians. A recent National Institute on Drug Abuse study found that one in three Americans used highly-addictive ...
Study Shows Ohio Ranks 8th In Total Payments By Opioid Makers To Doctors Who Prescribe ThemWVXU

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There's merit in Centers fight against opioids
Citrus County Chronicle
It was good news recently when we heard that Florida is getting $17 million in federal funds for local communities to combat rising opioid addiction. More than 20 percent of those funds are to be used for treatment using Vivitrol, a medication that ...

Charleston Post Courier
South Carolina files lawsuit against manufacturer of OxyContin - Purdue Pharma in worsening opioid crisis
Charleston Post Courier
Wilson's legal challenge comes at a time when highly addictive prescription pills and deadly dosages of heroin continue to kill hundreds of South Carolina residents and tens of thousands of Americans every year. More than 565 South Carolinians died of ...
Lawsuit accuses drug manufacturer of worsening opioid crisisWSPA.com
Sixth state sues opioid makers alleging they've created health crisisLexington Herald Leader
South Carolina sues OxyContin maker Purdue over opioid marketingReuters
Minneapolis Star Tribune -Washington Examiner -Pulse Headlines
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Community View: Opioid addiction isn't just a 'drug addict' problem
Kdminer
You are taking pain medication three to four times a day for maybe a month by this time. This little story is more common than you can imagine. We have many people, even here in Kingman, who live with the delusion that they are not drug addicts. They ...

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The Sydney Morning Herald
St Vincent's Hospital intervenes to cut opioid prescriptions given to patients on discharge
The Sydney Morning Herald
When the pharmacy at St Vincent's Hospital alerted pain specialist Dr Jennifer Stevens to the "steep" year-on-year increases in the amount of opioid-based painkillers being prescribed to patients on discharge, she knew something had to change. To cut ...

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Can Opioids and Substance Abuse Disorder Coexist?
Pain Medicine News
“It's my favorite part of my job,” said Michele L. Matthews, PharmD, CPE, BCACP, FASHP, associate professor of pharmacy practice at Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, in Worcester. Prescribed painkillers have fueled an addiction ...

The Tand D.com
'You need treatment along with prescription'; focus on opioid addiction as medical issue is vital, officials say
The Tand D.com
“Heroin is easier to get than pain pills. Now with all of what the government has put in place in terms of curbing the access to pain pills, the addicts are turning to a cheaper and more readily available opioid called heroin,” Singleton said. “A large ...

How one woman beat her addiction to heroin in California | The ...
Sacramento Bee
Treatment options for heroin users are scarce in a whole swath of Central and Southern California. One woman still managed to beat her addiction.

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The Times
Dr Mark Porter: Accidental addiction to prescription painkillers is a growing problem
The Times
Ant McPartlin may not be your typical man next door but his addiction to prescription painkillers should be a cautionary tale for us all. The 41-year-old television presenter has just finished a spell in rehab to wean him off a cocktail of painkillers ...

AL.com
Birmingham files lawsuit against 3 of the largest drug wholesalers in US
AL.com
"It has only grown worse as people who were addicted to prescription pills have, thanks to heightened enforcement efforts, found them harder to come by," Birmingham Police Chief A.C. Roper said in a statement. "The residents of Birmingham and the city ...

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BBC News
Ant McPartlin 'overwhelmed' by fans' support over addiction
BBC News
"I was at the point where anything - prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs - I would take," he said. "And take them with alcohol, which is ridiculous. The doctors told me, 'You could have killed yourself'." He told the newspaper that Dec got ...
Ant McPartlin: My addiction to painkillers almost killed meiNews
Ant McPartlin speaks about his recovery: 'I was necking tramadol to the point of psychosis'Telegraph.co.uk
Ant McPartlin reveals his secret addiction to painkillers almost killed him as he leaves rehabChronicleLive
Marie Claire UK -Coventry Telegraph -DailyEdge.ie
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Honolulu Civil Beat
Health Beat: Opioid Addiction Less Likely If We Start With Smaller Doses
Honolulu Civil Beat
With chronic pain pills, serious side effects, addiction or overdose can occur even with the most well-intentioned use of the medication taken as prescribed. A reduction in dosage might not stop chronic users from taking more pills, but if lower doses ...

Daily Comet
Opinion: Opioid ?rms must clean up their mess
Daily Comet
At 18, when Felicia visited the emergency room for severe tooth pain, she hadn't planned on getting addicted to prescription pain pills or later heroin. As her mother, Christina, put it: “She had no intention of growing up saying, 'I want to be an ...

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Disposing of extra pills helps in war on addiction
Allied News
The pouches allow those who have extra pain medication the opportunity to render it useless, keeping it out of the hands of innocents and addicts. And drying up that source of pills is critical if we want to keep the number of addicts and users from ...

The Times and Democrat
'Being an addict is a full-time job': Recovering man shares harrowing story of survival
The Times and Democrat
The Centers for Disease Control recently reported that while the amount of opioids prescribed in the United States peaked in 2010 and then decreased each year through 2015, the volume of potentially addictive medications prescribed is still about three ...

iNews
Ant McPartlin: My addiction to painkillers almost killed me
iNews
In an interview with The Sun on Sunday, the I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here presenter said his turning point came when he was rushed to hospital at 5am after an “insane” binge on prescription pills.
Ant McPartlin speaks about his recovery: 'I was necking tramadol to the point of psychosis'Telegraph.co.uk
Ant McPartlin on his two-year addiction to painkillers: 'I was at the point where I'd take anything'Independent.ie
Ant McPartlin reveals he almost DIED from secret addiction to ...Mirror.co.uk
Heat -DailyEdge.ie -ChronicleLive -The Sun
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iNews
Ant McPartlin speaks about his recovery: 'I was necking tramadol to the point of psychosis'
Telegraph.co.uk
Award-winning TV presenter Ant McPartlin has spoken about his addiction to prescription painkillers after spending two months in rehab. McPartlin, half of presenting duo Ant and Dec with childhood friend Declan Donnolley, was admitted to rehab in June ...
Ant McPartlin: My addiction to painkillers almost killed meiNews
Ant McPartlin 'overwhelmed' by fans' support over addictionBBC News
Why was Ant McPartlin in rehab, who's his wife, what's his net worth, how old is he and when did he meet Declan ...The Sun
Heat -Birmingham Mail -Scottish Daily Record -The Sun
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The Guardian
Don't blame addicts for America's opioid crisis. Here are the real culprits
The Guardian
With the pharmaceutical lobby's money keeping Congress on its side, regulations were rewritten to permit physicians to prescribe as many pills as they wanted without censure. Indeed, doctors sometimes found themselves hauled before ethics boards for ...
Trump declares US opioid pain drugs national emergencyBBC News
The Opioid Crisis in the United StatesHuffPost
The Opioid Crisis As 'National Emergency'WBUR
Youngstown Vindicator -Washington Post -The White House -The White House
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Bend Bulletin
Foster care rates rise amid drug addiction
Bend Bulletin
Quitting excessive opiate use can trigger painful physical withdrawals, according to Adapt CEO Dr. Greg Brigham. When someone gets addicted to prescription pills or heroin, they don't go back to the drugs for the sake of getting high or partying. They ...

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