Prescription Drug Addiction

Published February 4, 2014

Prescription Drug Addiction – Our Crossroads CEO, John Hull, sits with Dr. Jerry Johnston to discuss the growing addiction to prescription drugs among the young people in North America an…

Thomas Koch: Governor's drug addiction initiative deserves wide support

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In the last dozen years, and partly as a result of the “Elephant in the Living Room” report that our study committee released, we have increased treatment capacity for drug abuse, instituted a prescription drug monitoring system, taken steps to prevent …
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With Hoffman's Death, A Look At Heroin Use

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Deeney says that most heroin users start out as prescription drug abusers. However, prescription drugs are more expensive than heroin, and have been reformulated to be harder to abuse. “The crackdown on prescription drug abuse is having this unintended …
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A deadly habit: Prescription drugs leading cause of overdose deaths in Larimer …

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In 2007, 27,000 people nationally died from prescription drug overdoses, leading federal heath officials to call prescription drug abuse “the fastest-growing drug problem in the United States.” The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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