Prescription Drug abuse can be very dangerous. There is a misconception that using prescription drugs is not as dangerous as street drugs, but that is simply not true. The health risks associated with prescription drug abuse can be both immediate and can cause long term harm. There is also a misconception that …
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Drug abuse in our youth has been a problem for many years. Parents have been fighting this battle for many years. In 1980, over thirty years ago, a small group of parents formed the “National Family Partnership”, and today they are a national leader in drug prevention education and advocacy. Their main …
Prescription Drug monitoring is done state by state, often c called a PDMP. Not all states participate in a PDMP. PDMP are run by the states themselves, and often have slightly different policies. They are all a statewide electronic database that collects certain data on prescriptions dispensed in that state. These programs …
More than three in five teenagers say that prescription drugs are easy to get from their parent’s medicine cabinets according to a report done by the office of National Drug control. One in four grandparents say that they leave medications in places that gives children and teenagers easy access. According to the …
Prescription Drug abuse alone is dangerous. Every day people use prescription drugs in ways they were not prescribed, often becoming addicted, sometimes ending in fatal overdoses. Illegal Drug abuse is equally as dangerous. Addiction and fatal overdose are often the outcome. A new trend has put these two together and is causing …
Lupus is an autoimmune disease that can damage any part of your body, for example skin, joints, internal organs. Lupus is not a contagious disease; you cannot catch it from someone or give it to someone else. It is also a chronic disease that can flare with times when symptoms are worse and …
According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, there were an estimated 23.9 million Americans using illicit drugs. According to the Washington Post, 100 Americans die of drug overdoses every day. These statistics are startling, and with so many people using drugs, think of all the families that are affected. Addicts don’t just …
Is it time to clean out your medicine cabinet? Many prescription medications expire after a year, and many of us keep old medications long after they expire. It is important to keep all medications up to date, and to properly dispose of them. The FDA has guidelines for disposing of medications in …
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Prescription drugs and marijuana are the most common drugs abused by high school students. The perceived risk of marijuana has gone done, partially due to the knowledge that some states are approving the legal use of medical marijuana and also the movement of legalizing the use of recreational marijuana for adults in some …
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Safe Kids Worldwide has done a study that shows that over 67,000 children were treated for medication poisoning in 2011. What can we do to make that number decrease? We need to educate the children about medication safety, as more over the counter and prescription medications are readily available, and children oftentimes have …
