A painkiller and a drug used to treat anxiety are the most popularly prescribed medications in West Virginia's Medicaid program, which covers nearly 400,000 low-income state residents. In the first three months of the year, 21,478 prescriptions were written for the 5-milligram version and 15,143 were written for the 7.5-milligram of Lortab, according to Medicaid records.
WASHINGTON When the federal government's new prescription drug benefit kicks in next year, it will not cover a category of drugs commonly used to treat anxiety, insomnia and seizures. That means those disabled and elderly people on Medicare who take Xanax, Valium, Ativan and other types of the drug benzodiazepine will have to look elsewhere for coverage or switch to a different, less addictive medication.
Justice, again in the stipulation, confessed that he routinely directed nurse practitioners and physician assistants to use a physician's Drug Enforcement Administration number to prescribe 30-day supplies of drugs, including the painkiller hydrocodone and anti-anxiety drug alprazolam, which is sold under the brand name Xanax, among others.
NEW YORK - The big white pill was brought to her in an earthenware chalice. She'd already held hands with her two therapists and expressed her wishes for what it would help her do. She swallowed it, lay on the couch with her eyes covered, and waited. And then it came.
CHICAGO - Drug abuse experts say the arrest of Al Gore's son underscores the growing problem of prescription drug abuse among America's youth. College students use the stimulant Adderall, an attention deficit drug, to get a speedy high or pull all-nighters. The other drugs police say they found in Al Gore III's possession - marijuana, Xanax, Valium and Vicodin - also are campus favorites, experts say.
Preble County Sheriff Mike Simpson denied Thursday that medication was withheld for weeks from a federal inmate who now suffers from a speech impediment. The man's defense attorney, Bobby Joe Cox, made the claim Wednesday about his client, former Dayton police Officer Richard Eugene Elworth, after Elworth pleaded guilty to drug and gun felony charges in U.S. District Court.
A medical examiner's report that actor Heath Ledger died of an accidental overdose of several prescription drugs is a warning not to mix medications, doctors in North Jersey said Wednesday. Ledger, the 28-year-old Australian star of "Brokeback Mountain," died from a lethal combination of prescription painkillers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety drugs, the New York City medical examiner said.
WASHINGTON - When the federal government's new prescription drug benefit kicks in next year, it will not cover a category of drugs commonly used to treat anxiety, insomnia and seizures. That means those disabled and elderly people on Medicare who take Xanax, Valium, Atvian and other types of the drug benzodiazepine will have to look elsewhere for coverage or switch to a different, less addictive medication.
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