Category: News Tags: , ADHD medication abuse Students at colleges and universities who want that extra boost to stay up late and prepare for exams are turning to the attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)medication Adderall, while others are abusing the substance as a way to get a drug-induced high. All are at risk for serious […]
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Category: News Tags: , awareness, parenting, prescription drug abuse prevention Drug abuse among teens looks different than it did a few years ago. Teens aren’t abusing drugs these days just to get a high. Some are abusing them to focus and get better grades, lose weight or improve their perform in sports. Drug abuse has
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Category: News Tags: , prescription painkiller abuse, teen prescription drug abuse With every football tackle, volleyball dive and wrestling flip there’s the possibility that a teen athlete might be injured. In fact, 2 million U.S. high school teens suffer injuries each year. Once students enter high school, athletics become much more competitive. Rather than just
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Category: News Tags: , prescription drug disposal Maybe you missed the previous events, scheduled days when the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) took back all kinds of unused and unwanted prescription drugs at various locations across the country. Well, there’s another event coming up the end of this month, the 4th National Take-Back Day scheduled for
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Category: News Tags: , prescription painkiller abuse Every 19 minutes, someone dies from overdosing on a prescription drug. People are becoming addicted to these drugs and require treatment to get clean and to stay clean. Even infants are being born addicted to prescription medicines at an alarming rate. Because of this growing problem with prescription
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Category: News Tags: , influences, parenting, prescription drug abuse prevention Middle school represents an awkward and difficult transition time. These youths are no longer in grammar school. They are not little kids. But they are not yet teenagers either. They are in-between child and teenager, hence the term “tween.” Not only are tweens confused about
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Category: News Tags: , prescription painkiller abuse Drug use among teens has traditionally brought to mind images of kids dealing drugs in dark hallways at school. Parents may have kept an eye on any new friends who came around their teens, looking for suspicious behaviors or traits that might indicate a predatory situation. Instead of
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Category: News Tags: , teen prescription drug abuse Prescription drug addiction is an ongoing chemical dependency to any medication normally legally prescribed by a medical doctor. In some cases, this form of addiction occurs in people who were originally intended to take the medication in question, while in other cases, it occurs in people not
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Category: News Tags: , prescription drug abuse prevention, prescription painkiller abuse The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is pushing for new labeling on prescription drugs. Of particular concern to the FDA are painkilling prescription medications with extended time release formulas. The proposal comes on the heels of numerous deaths and near-death overdoses related to
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