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Rod MacTaggart
Member since 31st July 2007
Rod MacTaggart is a freelance writer that contributes articles on health.
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23rd July 2008
Eighty-five percent of the 365 web sites selling highly addictive and dangerous controlled substances require no prescription, according to a study just released by Columbia University researchers, a situation that is seriously hampering efforts to curb p...
23rd July 2008
A panel of addiction experts say Nevada’s skyrocketing abuse of prescription narcotics -- the highest in the nation -- is caused by doctors who don’t take the time to examine a patient’s history and source of pain, leading to inadequate treatment a...
20th July 2008
On August 18, 2006, only eighteen years old and three days away from her first day in college, Emily Jackson swallowed a single OxyContin tablet, and soon thereafter died. Emily is only one of hundreds of Americans, and thousands world-wide, who have lost...
20th May 2008
Can you imagine an 11-year-old 5th-grader needing drug detox for Xanax -- or any drug? As appalling as the concept may seem, news reports across the country reveal that prescription drug abuse in middle schools these days isn’t unusual. And Xanax, one o...
20th May 2008
According to two recent Australian studies, the use of naltrexone implants to treat drug dependency should be stopped because of reports of severe adverse reactions. But even if the so-called “treatment” was safe, treating a drug addiction with a repl...
01st May 2008
Someone needs to make it very clear -- to kids and adults of all ages -- that benzodiazepines mixed with other drugs or alcohol kills a lot of people every year. In fact, if you’re regularly mixing benzos with other drugs or alcohol, you’re probably...
28th April 2008
Police seizures of the opiate addiction maintenance drug buprenorphine are skyrocketing in Baltimore, MD, and according to officials it is typical of a national trend. Under publicly funded "addiction maintenance" programs, addicts are being prescribed wh...
27th April 2008
For nearly two decades, rapid opiate detox programs have been touted in the media and on the Internet as "the big new detox thing", and the promotional claims have continued. But after 20 years, this often inordinately expensive and frequently dangerous p...
16th April 2008
Far too many people, especially those who have never been addicted to anything, consider addiction a "life-style choice" -- something an addict could stop if he or she "really wanted to" and wasn’t so "weak-willed." Such opinions show ignorance of the s...
16th April 2008
The early-90s movie Ricochet, starring Denzel Washington, graphically depicted how drug addiction can be forced on someone against their will. Just like Gene Hackman’s tough Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle in the 1971 thriller The French Connection, Denz...
10th April 2008
Florida pharmacists, doctors and law enforcement favor a statewide prescription drug monitoring program to help curb crime, save lives and protect patients from inadvertent harm. Some state reps fear invasion of patient privacy, overlooking not only tha...
07th April 2008
At a time when drug abuse and addiction have reached record levels across America, and government agencies from the White House down are involved in serious efforts to provide more treatment facilities, the State of Kentucky is considering a bill that cut...
07th April 2008
If you think drinking alcohol is a normal and acceptable social activity, you have a lot of company. The vast majority of Americans never think about the potential disaster they might cause by driving home after hoisting a few, let alone the risk of alcoh...
07th April 2008
Who would think that having a sore neck or back could wind someone up in a drug detox?
Yet when back pain is bad enough or lasts so long it’s intolerable, a common solution is to see your doctor. Unfortunately, such a solution can lead to even worse ...
06th April 2008
Looking over the current news about the opioid painkiller OxyContin, we can see there’s not much change today from any other day in the last year or so. This is a drug that, despite its usefulness for helping serious chronic pain sufferers, has created ...
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