Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “prescription drugs”
Unfortunately, the prescriptions for anti-anxiety medication have a high potential for abuse. Many people innocently go to their doctor for a solution to their anxiety and have no idea that they will become physically, mentally and emotionally dependent on the very thing that was meant to give them freedom.
A recent survey conducted by the Gallup organization sought the percentage of people in each state who took drugs almost daily to alter their mood. These included street drugs and …
After many years of rapidly increasing prescription drug abuse around the country, the most recent survey results from Monitoring The Future (MTF) show a decline in use among youth. Other …
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 …
One of the most commonly used treatments for opiate addiction in America for many years has been to use methadone as a maintenance drug. This theory behind this drug substitution …
Have an active kid with a shorter attention span? Watch out because chances have become more likely that someone in the education and/or healthcare field will try and diagnose him …
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement cited a report last week indicating that overall deaths in the state caused by prescription drugs had decreased nearly 10 percent last year. The …
A new Mayo Clinic study finds that almost 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug. The study also suggests that more than half of all Americans …