Prescription drug abuse is quickly becoming one of the most serious substance abuse problems in America. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), deaths involving opioid pain relievers now outnumbers deaths involving heroin and cocaine combined. But, medical groups and practitioners are quickly forming plans for how to fight the substance abuse…
ReadPrescription drug deaths have soared and the face of addiction is changing. Phillip Seymour Hoffman’s death from heroin overdose came on the heels of his relapse on to prescribed painkillers and then to heroin. Hoffman, sober for many years, fell back into addiction following treatment for an injury involving prescribed pain medication. Doctors routinely prescribe…
ReadIn 2010 an abuse deterrent formulation of OxyContin was introduced. With this new formulation, “Oxy” would be harder to crush and put into solution for snorting or injection and it was believed that OxyContin abuse and addiction would decline. A study of people entering substance abuse treatment programs for primary prescription opioid addiction involved a…
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