Opiates is a term frequently used interchangeably with the word opioids. They refer to a class of drugs often prescribed for the treatment of acute and severe pain. While opiates do indeed have therapeutic benefits, prescription drug abuse is common. In fact, commonly abused opiates are the number one cause of drug overdoses in America.…
The Five Step American Medicine Chest Challenge is an event devised to include families in the fight against prescription drug abuse. The challenge asks families to participate in five steps …
Most people acquire prescription drugs legally from their doctor for legitimate reasons, take them as prescribed, and stop taking them when no longer needed. However, many people begin to misuse them for their psychoactive effects. The misuse of prescription drugs involves taking them other than how they were explicitly prescribed. The most commonly abused prescription…
As more and more lawmakers realize that they need to establish regulations to prevent the growing prescription drug abuse problem, the number of people abusing painkillers is beginning to lessen. …
States all over the country have been concentrating on curbing the growing prescription drug abuse problem and now it looks like they will get help on a national level. The …
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is set to head up another nationwide coordinated effort to get unused prescription drugs off the street and out of medicine cabinets on April …