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Hydrocodone and prescription drug abuse

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:12:10 +0000

The 2006 Monitoring the Future Survey reported 3 percent of eighth-graders, 7 percent of ninth-graders and 9.7 percent of all high school seniors in the country admitted to abusing Vicodin (a specific name brand combination of hydrocodone and acetaminophen) during the previous year.

ASU report reveals rising prescription drug abuse

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:10:56 +0000

A recently released survey of Maricopa County jail facilities reveals a striking increase in the use of opiates and prescription painkillers among new inmates.

Drug bills pass House

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:09:45 +0000

The House of Delegates completed legislative action Wednesday on two bills that target prescription drug abuse.

Oxycodone pill mills work a lot like ‘printing money’

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:06:04 +0000

One year. Five doctors. A single pain clinic. Two million hits of oxy.
To be precise, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration says that five doctors working out of American Pain Clinic in Lake Worth prescribed — peddled might be a more accurate term — 2,167,710 Oxycodone tablets in 2009.

Heath care system shares blame in rise of deaths from narcotics

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:04:28 +0000

The article, “Lawmen can’t keep up with the flow of drugs,” in the Times Recorder Feb. 28, was well thought out and timely. The line, “Those in law enforcement say those taking prescription pills that are opiates, such as oxycodone, become addicted,” hit a nerve.

Pain clinic operators to pay $820,000 for fraud

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:03:30 +0000

A Town and Country physician, his wife and their pain-management clinics will pay the federal government $820,000 to resolve allegations of filing false medical claims.

Pain management: Opioid use in chronic noncancer pain

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:02:21 +0000

The American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine has issued evidence-based guidelines for the management of chronic pain based on an expert review of the literature.

Feds raid three Florida ‘pill mills’

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:59:31 +0000

Three Florida clinics suspected of illegally distributing millions of prescription pain pills were raided and charged with being “pill mills,” authorities said.

Pain Clinic reacts to recent raids

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:58:04 +0000

It is scenes like the one outside American Pain in Lake Worth, Wednesday, which Pain clinics say is giving them a bad name.
“Are there a lot of people out there jumping on the bandwagon, I would image, there is a lot of money to be made,” said Jodi Manders, the office manager at Boynton Pain Management.

Fewer deaths from drug overdoses reported

julian — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:56:21 +0000

The number of overdose deaths in Sarasota County dropped by as much as 25 percent last year, according to a preliminary review by the medical examiner’s office.