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Pueblo in line with painkiller epidemic
The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.Local officials confirm what federal health officials have been saying for a decade: Prescription painkiller abuse is an epidemic that claims more victims every year -- more than cocaine and heroin combined. Pueblo County Coroner James Kramer said...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Heroin, Hydrocodone (drug)
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A New Exhibit at the Connecticut Historical Society Looks at Pain Relief
Ever have dental work done on you without novacaine or laughing gas? Me neither. Wimps and tough-guys alike will find humor and pain-free entertainment in This Won't Hurt a Bit! A History of Pain Relief, an informative new exhibit running at the...
Tags: Connecticut Historical Society, Dentistry and Dental Health, Arts and Culture, Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut)
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Prescription abuse hits LCO Band
Duluth News TribuneThe Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Ojibwe is struggling with what its leaders call a widespread problem with prescription drug abuse and have terminated the doctor who the band says made narcotic painkillers too readily available to his patients. Dr....Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry, Health and Medical Professionals, Acetaminophen (drug), Diabetes
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Ohioans overdosing on painkillers, heroin
The Columbus DispatchNew statistics showing that drug overdose deaths reached an all-time high in Ohio in 2011 make Wayne Campbell angry. ?It hits home for the Pickerington father because one of the 1,765 deaths that year was his son, Tyler, 23. ??? ??But it also makes...Tags: Substance Abuse, Franklin County (Virginia), Heroin, Epidemics and Plagues, FedEx Corporation
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Maryland families to get new tool in fight against drug overdoses
Linda Fletcher lives in fear of reliving a nightmare: a son dying from a heroin overdose. Her son Kris Klipner succumbed to the drug in 2007. He was 28. Klipner's half-brother battles the same kind of depression as Kris. He suffers the same heroin...
Tags: Recreational Substance Use, Substance Abuse, Methadone (drug), Politics, Family
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Attorney general reaches deal with Rockport dentist's assistant for hydrocodone possession
Bangor Daily News, MaineA former receptionist for a Rockport dentist pleaded guilty Wednesday to a drug charge and will see a reduced sentence if she assists in any state investigation of the doctor. The dentist himself reached a consent decree last fall with the Maine Board...Tags: Prisons, Habitat for Humanity International, Crime, Law and Justice, Hydrocodone (drug), Justice System
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Pot in a pill: All the pain relief without the smoke
Unless there is some recognized analgesic effect of rolling a joint, lighting it up and deeply inhaling the by-products of marijuana combustion, then it stands to reason that you could distill the psychoactive ingredient of marijuana,...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Placebo, Recreational Substance Use, Substance Abuse, Drugs and Medicines
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Pain doctors on board with crackdown
Kokomo Tribune, Ind.Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller is unleashing a major crackdown on the state's medical community, and a spokesman for Indiana's pain management doctors says it's about time. "It basically just got out of control, to where we're prescribing six...Tags: Morphine (drug), Procedural Sedation, Chemical Industry, Pharmaceuticals, Prosecution
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Too many pills
Kokomo Tribune, Ind.Medical experts agree the doctors implicated in the Wagoner Medical Center investigation were prescribing too many narcotic pills. An expert witness for the prosecution found numerous cases where four doctors -- all now facing felony drug dealing...Tags: Chemical Industry, Witnesses, Labor Legislation, Hydrocodone (drug), Hospitals and Clinics
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Keeping old medications? Why and how you should get rid of them
St. Louis Post-DispatchWith deaths from prescription painkillers surpassing the number of deaths from heroine, cocaine and methamphetamine combined, drug enforcement officials are trying to make it easier to safely get rid of unused and expired medications. Saturday is...Tags: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Chemical Industry, YMCA, Pharmaceuticals, St. Louis
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Delray man accused of writing fake pain killer prescription
It started with a search over the Internet: "How to write a pain killer prescription." With information gained from the search and a page from his doctor's prescription pad, Boca Raton Police say Jason Ian Bayne, 44, of Delray Beach, walked into a Boca...
Tags: Lipitor (drug), Statins (drugs), Vicodin (drug), Delray Beach
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Teva pain treatment gets FDA orphan drug status
Globes, Tel Aviv, IsraelTeva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) and Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted orphan-drug status to the investigational drug XEN402 being developed for the...Tags: Prescription Drugs, Drugs and Medicines, Israel, Food and Drug Administration, Tel Aviv (Israel)
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