A Special Thanks for Your Thoughts on Prescription Drug Abuse

Published June 7, 2013

A Special Thanks for Your Thoughts on Prescription Drug Abuse – In March, Senator Rockefeller asked West Virginians for their solutions to the prescription drug epidemic in the state. Your responses were so encouraging, a…

'Waltzing in a mine field': Medical professionals discuss how to curtail …

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'Waltzing in a mine field': Medical professionals discuss how to curtail prescription drug abuse. “We have a prescription opiate problem in this country and in this state, the likes of which we have never seen,” a drug abuse safety expert told health …
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Weight loss drug Belviq gets overdue US launch

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… launch was delayed for months by logistical hurdles, including classification by the Drug Enforcement Administration. According to the drug's label, Belviq will be classified as a Schedule IV controlled substance, which means it has a low potential …
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Brain Imaging Predicts Alcohol-Dependency Relapse

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National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) Director Nora Volkow, M.D., and Ruben Baler, Ph.D., NIDA's health science administrator, discussed the significance of the study's findings in an accompanying editorial, saying they represent an important step …
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