Prescription Drugs

What Drug Used That Is in Pill Form Causes a Tingling Sensation When Placed in Your Mouth?

Question by Iris: What Drug used that is in pill form causes a tingling sensation when placed in your mouth?
Im a nurse and know my prescription drugs, but I can say I know much about the drugs are illegal and abused. What White plain pill tingles on your… Continue reading →

Drug Abuse Runs in Families

Drug Abuse Runs in Families

Filed under: drug abuse

Environmental factors within families have "potent influences" on the risk for drug abuse, new research confirms. In a nationwide Swedish study, researchers found that the risk for drug abuse was strongly correlated in siblings and spouses after …
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What Could Be Done to Improve the Mental Health Care System in America?

Question by esha26: What could be done to improve the mental health care system in America?
A general question but please be as specific as you like.

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Answer by k-baby
Better insurance for one. Couselors and therapists with better qualifications and that actually care. Facilities that can… Continue reading →

Viewpoint: Are Doctors to Blame for Prescription–Drug Abuse?

Viewpoint: Are Doctors to Blame for Prescription–Drug Abuse?

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For some patients, we can add a prescription for a limited number of opioid pills to be filled only if absolutely necessary. With that small prescription should come a big warning. Something like: “These… Continue reading →

In Tackling Substance Abuse, State Could Learn From Oregon

In tackling substance abuse, state could learn from Oregon

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

West Virginia admittedly has a long way to go toward getting a grip on the state's rampant substance-abuse problem and developing a strategy that provides people the help they need to pull themselves out of… Continue reading →

New Data on Drug Use

New data on drug use

Filed under: drug abuse statistics

Teenagers abuse prescription medication more than anything else besides marijuana. Tomorrow, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy is set to release new data on youth drug use. Most of those teens start abusing medication found in …… Continue reading →