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FDA monitors and regulates abuse of drugs and devices ! Who monitors abuse of investigations in medicine ? by Dr. Sangareddi V. Medical Doctor

Posted Wed 07 Jan 2009 5:11pm routinely ! Just because these investigation do not have any physical , visible , adverse reactions like a drug , it should not be allowed to be abused .The consequence of false... in the last 50 years is nearly equal to 2000 years of evolution of our knowledge put together. Along with this growth , came the unavoidable misuse , and abuse of medical Read on »

Teenage Drug Abuse: Legal Drugs of Abuse Teens Love by addictiondoc Posted Wed 02 Feb 2011 11:15am I am a psychiatrist specializing in addiction. I have seen an increase of teenage drug abuse in the last 5 years in my practice. Of the teens I treat, they are more likely these days to abuse “legal” drugs- some prescription and some non-prescription. They get the medications from medicine cabinets of their parents, grandparents Read on »

Young people die using/abusing drugs by Dr. Richard Keller Medical Doctor

Posted Thu 23 Oct 2008 1:34pm Young people use/abuse drugs. Young people die from using/abusing drugs. We need to stop young people from dying from drug use/abuse. (The same goes for older people... folks to quit abusing drugs: Near death experience (i.e. the drug abuser nearly dying) Looking in the mirror and feeling genuine disgust Loss of your children, having them Read on »

More Older People Abusing Drugs by Anthony Cirillo Patient Expert

Posted Tue 24 Aug 2010 6:00am Drug abuse treatment programs across the country are seeing more older users of illegal narcotics than ever before. According to a report from a division of the Department of Health and Human Services, admissions of adults aged 50 and older in drug treatment programs has nearly doubled over the last two decades, to 12% in 2008 from 6.6 Read on »

Women Veterans Less Likely Than Male Peers to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol by HealthFinder Posted Thu 11 Nov 2010 9:00am drug abuse are similar, survey finds. THURSDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News... veterans are equally likely to abuse prescription drugs, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. The findings come from an analysis of 2002 to 2009 Read on »

Women Veterans Less Likely Than Male Peers to Abuse Drugs, Alcohol by Medline Plus Posted Thu 11 Nov 2010 1:00pm But rates of prescription drug abuse are similar, survey finds By Robert Preidt Thursday, November 11, 2010 THURSDAY, Nov. 11... and male veterans are equally likely to abuse prescription drugs, according to the Center for Behavioral Health Statistics and Quality. The findings come from an analysis of 2002 Read on »

Child Abuse and Drug Addiction: an important link by AWeidman Posted Sat 27 Nov 2010 9:01am the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York studied 143 people in an attempt to find out more about the link between child abuse and drug addiction. 48 of them were child... Child abuse is known to be a risk factor for a number of different mental-health problems and antisocial behaviour. For example, the Center's for Disease Control's famous Read on »

New Study: 20% of Teens Abuse Drugs Not Prescribed to Them by HazelMike Posted Tue 08 Jun 2010 6:22am FOX 9′s Tim Blotz talked with Hazelden psychiatrist, Dr. Joseph Lee, about this disturbing trend. Think those illegal drugs some of our teenagers are taking are all street drugs? Think again. A new study by the Centers for Disease Control finds that one in five high school students have taken a prescription drug that they didn’t get from Read on »

Many talented people use or abuse drugs by Douglas E. Patient Expert

Posted Sat 27 Mar 2010 11:40pm Psychologist and creativity coach/author Eric Maisel, PhD says “The artist is often a drug and alcohol abuser. “The challenge for the creative artist stirred... Successful People Crack , By Andrea Canning [my quotes are on page 2]. ~~ drugs and creativity, artists and drug abuse, drugs and awareness, creativity and getting high Read on »

New OxyContin Formulation Designed to Discourage Abuse of the Drug by MedNews Patient Expert

Posted Mon 05 Apr 2010 3:45pm , which allows patients to take their drug less often. However, people intent on abusing the previous formulation have been able to release high levels of oxycodone all at once....” According to the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s National Survey on Drug Use and Health, approximately half a million people used OxyContin non Read on »