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Lock the Cabinet – Protecting Kids from Prescription Drugs

About Lock the Cabinet Easy access to prescription drugs by teens – often from their parents’ medicine cabinet or those of their friends’ parents – makes them a prime target of curious young people who are experimenting with drugs. A growing number of children have been seen in emergency rooms for accidental overdoses on prescription …

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Opioid Painkillers are Usually Obtained from Friends, Not Doctors

Category: News   Tags: , prescription painkiller abuse There has been increasing focus on the need for regulation of prescriptions being issued by doctors for painkillers that contain highly-addictive opioids. Previous research has shown high numbers of addiction, with experts calling for increased regulation of prescriptions, including screening of patients for prior drug addiction and the …

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Range of Problems with Over the Counter Medicines

Category: News   Tags: , cough medicine abuse A recent study published in Science Daily talks about the concerns UK doctors are recognizing with over the counter medicines, especially those containing codeine. Doctors are referring to the abusers as “respectable addicts” because these individuals all recognized their problem and wanted to present themselves as being more …

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Children as Young as 12 Addicted to Both Pain Meds and Benzodiazepine

Category: News   Tags: , painkiller abuse On their own, narcotic pain medications can be highly addictive; when used in combination with the medication benzodiazepine it becomes worse. Reports say the numbers of people seeking addiction treatment for these medications have grown exponentially – more than 560 percent during between 2000 and 2010. Additionally, the age …

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Parents, Peers Can Curb Risk of Prescription Drug Abuse Among Teens

Category: News   Tags: , parenting, prescription drug abuse prevention Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem in America. The abuse is happening not only among the adults who buy prescription medications, but it is a problem for our young people as well. Yet despite the fact that prescription drug abuse among young people continues to …

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