Prescription Drugs

Prescription drug abuse has been on the rise in the United States for a number of years. Residents of Pompano Beach, FL were recently reminded that the issue is very close to home when a local pain clinic, or “pill mill”, was busted by Broward Sheriff’s Office deputies and the SWAT team. The morning of [...]

Ray Lucas, a retired quarterback from the NFL, is speaking out about his past addiction to pain killers. NBC Sports online published an article noting that the NFL is being sued by almost 2,000 players for health injuries sustained while playing. Different from his peers, Lucas has come forward admitting that he too had started [...]

Medical marijuana seems to be a constant source of societal scrutiny. Whether marijuana dispensaries are being raided for distributing drugs inappropriately or whole states are being criticized for their policies regarding the substance, the issue is rarely far from public attention. Now, a British pharmaceutical company wants to change the way we think about medical [...]

The Center for Disease Control has labeled prescription drug abuse a national epidemic. Oxycodone, one of several narcotic painkillers, is among a number of drugs on the federal distribution regulations list. Oxycodone is a powerful and highly addictive pain medication that has been widely distributed by pill mill clinics. In the last few years, Florida [...]

Rates of prescription drug abuse in the United States have been climbing for years. Sometimes, individuals build up a tolerance to their medically prescribed drugs, needing more and more of them to achieve the same effects, and wind up with full-fledged addictions. Other times, people abuse prescriptions illegally to get a high that they may [...]

The drug company Zogenix is working at developing a more potent opiate for pain relief. This new drug called Zohydro will be more powerful than the second most abused drug in the world, OxyContin. They propose that this new pill will have at least 10 times more hydrocodone than Vicodin. This pill will be in [...]

Drugs are a medical wonder—at least when used with caution and as prescribed. Drugs that help relieve intense chronic pain for late stage cancer patients have been extraordinary at the end stages of these suffers’s lives. Unfortunately, these wonder drugs have found their way out of a professional context and onto the streets. Illegal use [...]

According to a November press release by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, carisoprodol also known as Soma, Soprodal, and Vanadom have been the cause of increasing emergency room visits from 15,830 in 2004 to 31,763 visits in 2009. The Soma brand of muscle relaxant is typically used for short term treatment of [...]

1.       Prescription painkillers cause more deaths than traffic accidents. People who are prescribed a high dosage of pain medication are at a higher risk of death. In 2008, roughly 37,500 people died from the damage that is caused by long chronic prescription drug abuse. 2.       60% of young adults who abuse prescription drugs tried them [...]

In 2010 the leading cause of accidental death throughout the country was from prescription drugs. Prescription drugs that contain opiates have been a problem that continue to grow but these statistics make the problem very real. Dr. Ted Parran one of the country’s leading experts in drug abuse, addiction and treatment spoke at the opiates [...]