Prescription Pills Addiction

State cleans up federal drug mess
Standard Speaker
Tom Marino's bill diminishing the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration to reduce the flow of powerful prescription opioid painkillers onto the black market. Marino ... It also would require prescribers to warn patients of the dangers of ...

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The Daily Nonpareil
Iowa marks awareness week about opioid crisis
The Daily Nonpareil
Committee members said the figures are a promising development amid a national epidemic of abuse of addictive narcotics. About 200 Iowa residents died last year of overdoses related to opioids, including prescription pills and heroin, state experts said.

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Florida Times-Union
Jacksonville City Council to vote on suing makers, distributors of prescription painkillers
Florida Times-Union
The City Council plans to vote on legislation Tuesday to direct city attorneys to find an outside law firm to sue several companies that manufacture and distribute prescription painkillers. Cities across the country have struggled in recent years to ...

Scranton Times-Tribune
Prescription bill slows opioid flow
Scranton Times-Tribune
... the Marino bill made it impossible, in effect, for the DEA to prevent the flow of millions of prescription opioid pills into “pill mill” operations where they vastly were overprescribed, fueling widespread addiction and making pills available for ...

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cleveland.com
Sen. Sherrod Brown stops in Cleveland to encourage drug take back day
cleveland.com
Friday's event at the medical examiner's office was part of the "Know the Risks" campaign, which is aimed at providing a centralized resource for services related to heroin, fentanyl and prescription pain pill addiction. cleveland.com, The Plain Dealer ...

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Drug Court graduate: 'I'm getting everything back that I lost'
The State Journal-Register
Beth Spensberger's drug problem started about seven years ago after she was in a car accident and injured her back. Doctors prescribed opioid painkillers, and before long, the 39-year-old became addicted to the medication. She bought opioid pills on ...

Newsday
LI's opioid epidemic costs businesses millions, experts say
Newsday
Addiction to prescription painkillers, heroin and other drugs is no longer solely the province of teenagers and twenty-somethings. Increasingly, people in their 30s, 40s and 50s — the prime working years — are addicted as well, according to research ...

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Our Opinion: The rural reality of opioid addiction
Berkshire Eagle
Prescription painkillers are a major contributor to the addiction problem, prompting Northwest District Attorney David Sullivan to declare Thursday, "We blew it over the last 25 years because we allowed pills to be distributed like candy." The medical ...

WFYI
Millions Of People Need Addiction Treatment—Family Doctors Could Help
WFYI
Yet, according to research published in the journal PLoS One, the solution may lie in the hands of primary care providers who can successfully treat addiction. More than two million Americans are addicted to opioids such as heroin and prescription ...

DPH Launches Middle School Pilot Program to Prevent Addiction and Violence
news.delaware.gov
“Capital School District is committed to meeting the needs of the whole child. Health education and skill-building so our students can say 'no' to heroin, prescription painkillers, and other addictive drugs is critical to this mission,” said Michael ...

Health Experts, Nonprofit Leaders Tackle Opioid Addiction at Conference
The Examiner News
A panel of psychiatrists, parents and representatives from nonprofit organizations offered personal and professional insights into treating potentially deadly addictions to prescription painkillers and heroin during last week's fourth annual HealthTech ...

Arizona Capitol Times
Solution to opioid addiction epidemic is medication-assisted treatment
Arizona Capitol Times
Addiction is a complex illness, with biological and psychological components. Medication pacifies the addicted brain's receptors that produce cravings and.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Milwaukee County panel backs hiring legal experts to file suits against opioid drug makers
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Companies that have repeatedly testified before Congress that these prescription painkillers would not be addictive, as well as distributors that ship such extreme volumes of the drugs into communities that the availability feeds a secondary black ...

The Sun
Demi Lovato reveals she used to smuggle cocaine onto planes and nearly died from overdosing on prescription drugs ...
The Sun
DEMI Lovato has told how she used to smuggle cocaine onto planes and nearly died from an overdose of prescription pills. The singer and actress, 25, spoke candidly about her struggle against addiction in her new documentary Simply Complicated.

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kgw.com
Chronic pain patients fear opioid crackdown will cost them their medication
kgw.com
“I learned a saying long ago: 'The drug addict takes drugs to escape life. A pain patient takes drugs to return to life.' We're not looking to escape. We want to participate.” Right now, Begeal's doctor continues to prescribe her the medication she ...

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NorthJersey.com
Opioid crisis: Painkiller restrictions are helping addiction fight, attorney general says
NorthJersey.com
FRANKLIN LAKES — Christopher Porrino, the state attorney general, outlined Wednesday night his office's plan to battle New Jersey's heroin epidemic by tightening restrictions on prescription painkillers whose legal use so often leads people down the ...
Physicians push back against proposed cap on compensationNJTV News
Attorney General: Why NJ is cracking down on doctors, drugmakers in opioid fightNJ.com

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USA TODAY
Opioid epidemic is tragically personal for public health expert
USA TODAY
At times, Joe Thompson got on top of his addiction for significant stretches of time. His wife said he did well for more than two years on Suboxone, a narcotic medication that can help people stop taking heroin and pain pills without suffering terrible ...

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Fox News
'Drug Dealers in Lab Coats'
New York Times
Today, 75 percent of people with opioid addictions began with prescription painkillers. The slide starts not on a street corner, but in ... Companies even argued that signs of addiction were a reason to prescribe more opioids. Endo Pharmaceuticals ...
Prescription opioid abuse rising in UKFox News
Penn State social science researchers collaborate to study opioid epidemicPenn State News
Misdiagnosing Causes and Casualties in the Opioid WarReason (blog)
International Business Times
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WMOT
Millions Of People Need Addiction Treatment—Family Doctors Could Help
WMOT
Yet, according to research published in the journal PLoS One, the solution may lie in the hands of primary care providers who can successfully treat addiction. More than two million Americans are addicted to opioids such as heroin and prescription ...

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Daily Mail
'It was a total shock to me - he was functional': Top surgeon recalls horror when his academic son, 21, died of a ...
Daily Mail
He suspects that Adam's addiction started after he was prescribed painkillers following a shoulder surgery. 'I vividly remember I didn't like the idea he was prescribed an excessive amount,' he explained. He also remembers finding a bottle of tramadol ...