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BRADENTON, Fla., Feb. 10, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- 'We are in a State of Emergency at the hands of prescription drugs.' That is the message that concerned Florida residents are desperate for people to hear. Floridians are dying at a rate of at least 7 per day due to prescription drug abuse and statistics show it is a national problem, which is why Families Against Addictive Drug Abuse (FAADA) is calling for an immediate Congressional hearing to help put an end to the epidemic. If 7 manatee washed up dead each day in our state, residents, government, and media would be demanding answers. Yet, prescription drug abuse takes at least 7 human lives daily and it goes relatively unnoticed. That is an atrocity," said Bradenton based interventional pain physician, Lora Brown, MD of Coastal Orthoped...
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... statute for a third conviction of a felony drug offense. Fifteen days after sen... drug offenders, has a drug dependence or abuse problem. Christopher J. Mumola & Jennifer C. . Karrberg, Bureau of Justice Statistics Special Report, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Drug...
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The general health of our citizens is a real and expensive problem. West Virginia is being brought to its knees by the high cost of health care for its aging population, which is generally in poor health. The statistics speak for themselves with our high incidence of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, prescription drug abuse, and tooth decay and gum disease. Poor health statistics and associated health care costs divert funds needed to grow our economy and to educate our workforce. Year after year we have poured resources into health care, debated how to fund retiree health insurance, and spent hundreds of millions of dollars in our limited state budget dealing with the consequences of poor public health. We cannot afford the escalating costs of continuing what seem to be never-ending in...
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... the history and suitability of the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Risk Evaluation and Mitigat... opioid medications, including the risks of abuse and overdose. This article will highlight recent a... describing mortality and morbidity statistics related to the prescription drug abuse problem, wi...
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When releasing last month's Monitoring the Future survey on drug use, John P. Walters, the director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, boasted that "broad" declines in teenage drug use promise "enormous beneficial consequences not only for our children now, but for the rest of their lives." Actually, anybody who has looked carefully at the report and other recent federal studies would see a dramatically different picture: skyrocketing illicit drug abuse and related deaths among teenagers and adults alike. While Monitoring the Future, an annual study that depends on teenagers to self-report on their behavior, showed that drug use dropped sharply in the last decade, the National Center for Health Statistics has reported that teenage deaths from illicit drug abuse have tripled ...
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Mainers use more prescription painkillers than people in almost any other state, according to statistics that officials say help explain the state's growing problem with prescription drug abuse. Maine ranked 7th in the nation in per capita consumption of oxycodone, the active ingredient in OxyContin, and was fourth in consumption of methadone, according to federal Drug Enforcement Administration data for 2002, the most recent available.
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In Morse v. Frederick, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools can prohibit speech "that can reasonably be regarded as encouraging illegal drug use." This article studies lower federal court opinions that have interpreted the Supreme Court's ruling. Analysis shows that although several lower courts have explicitly limited Morse's reach to speech advocating illegal drug use, other lower courts have applied Morse's rationale to prohibit speech in situations beyond the circumstances of that case. If interpreted broadly, Morse risks severely damaging students' ever-shrinking First Amendment rights.
..., Roberts wrote.36 He cited drug usage statistics as evidence of the "drug abuse problem" among seco...
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... there has been a dramatic increase in the abuse of and dependency on prescription opioid pain medi...Viewed as safer than street drugs like heroin, prescription pain pill misuse is on t.... Statistics over the past five years have shown that the misus...
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In the face of alarming statistics on drug and alcohol use, Northpointe Council of Niagara Falls is ramping up its message during the National Institute on Drug Abuse's first National Drug Fact Week, Monday through Nov. 14. In Niagara County, 800 youths are expected to participate in education and prevention programs at Gaskill Preparatory School in Niagara Falls, Newfane Middle School and with the Lockport YMCA teen group.
