Generic Drugs Health: Does It Make a Difference if It's Generic or Not?
Generic Drugs Health: Does It Make A Difference If It's Generic Or Not?
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
According to a 2010 report from The Drug Abuse Warning Network, antidepressants contributed to <a href="http://www.samhsa.gov/data/2k10/WebSR018Pharma50+/Pharma50+HTML.pdf" target="_hplink">8.6 percent of emergency room visits</a> by adults …
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Drug court: Addicts kick habit, charges
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
For three decades Fore was addicted to crack cocaine, and he did a lot of things he wasn't proud of. But in 2010, police picked him up on a charge, drug possession with intent to sell, that was one too many under California's "three strikes and you're …
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Are baby boomers the pill-popping generation?
Filed under: drug addiction news 2010
More older adults are also seeking treatment for substance abuse. Drug-related hospitalizations and visits to emergency rooms were up 116 percent in the 55-to-64 age group from 2004 to 2010. When asked if they had used an illicit drug in the past 30 …
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The Trouble With Talk Therapy
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According to the author, 30 percent fewer patients received psychological interventions in 2008 than they did 11 years earlier; since the 1990s, managed care has increasingly limited visits and reimbursements for talk therapy but not for drug treatment…
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