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Opana Creates a Deadly High – New Prescription Drug Addiction Drugs are a medical wonder—at least when used with caution and as prescribed. Drugs that help relieve intense chronic pain for late stage cancer patients have been extraordinary at the end stages of these suffers’s lives. Unfortunately, these wonder drugs have found their way out
Zohydro: New Option for Opiate Addicts The drug company Zogenix is working at developing a more potent opiate for pain relief. This new drug called Zohydro will be more powerful than the second most abused drug in the world, OxyContin. They propose that this new pill will have at least 10 times more hydrocodone than
Trash Your Stash and go to Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States have been climbing for years. Sometimes, individuals build up a tolerance to their medically prescribed drugs, needing more and more of them to achieve the same effects, and wind up with full-fledged addictions. Other times, people
DEA Scrutinizes Walgreens for Exceeding Oxycodone Prescriptions Regs The Center for Disease Control has labeled prescription drug abuse a national epidemic. Oxycodone, one of several narcotic painkillers, is among a number of drugs on the federal distribution regulations list. Oxycodone is a powerful and highly addictive pain medication that has been widely distributed by pill
Sativex – New Spray from Mary J? Medical marijuana seems to be a constant source of societal scrutiny. Whether marijuana dispensaries are being raided for distributing drugs inappropriately or whole states are being criticized for their policies regarding the substance, the issue is rarely far from public attention. Now, a British pharmaceutical company wants to
NFL Athlete Takes Responsibility for Painkiller Addiction Ray Lucas, a retired quarterback from the NFL, is speaking out about his past addiction to pain killers. NBC Sports online published an article noting that the NFL is being sued by almost 2,000 players for health injuries sustained while playing. Different from his peers, Lucas has come
From the Jersey Shore to Rehab According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the estimated number of emergency department visits involving nonmedical use of benzodiazepines increased 89 percent nationwide between 2004 and 2008 and that number is rising at an alarming rate. Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino, from the reality TV show, “The
Pompano Beach Pain Clinic Raid Echoes National Problem Prescription drug abuse has been on the rise in the United States for a number of years. Residents of Pompano Beach, FL were recently reminded that the issue is very close to home when a local pain clinic, or “pill mill”, was busted by Broward Sheriff’s Office
Rodney King Dies Still Struggling with Addiction Rodney King was an iconic figure in American history. The beating he endured on March 3, 1991 by Los Angeles police, who would later be acquitted, would lead to a chain of events that would affect the people of Los Angeles and the rest of the United States.
NFL Plagued with DUIs It seems that every month a NFL player is being arrested for a DUI. With all of these players getting in trouble, they must be getting sanctioned by the NFL, right? Well, not quite. It appears that NFL players are just paying their way out of their DUIs without fixing the
