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22nd September 2009
Prescription drug addiction is an ever-growing problem in the United States. People receive prescription drugs most often to combat pain. When they become accustomed to taking a pill to relieve that pain, they often become addicted before they even real... Read >
Author: Mervin Hester19th August 2009
A recent analysis of the data provided by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has shown that the US citizens today are taking more painkillers than ever before throughout the history. The study comprised a ten year period, and since 1997 the was ... Read >
Author: John Scott09th August 2009
We like to be able to trust our doctors and the medication they prescribe for us, but in the past, a surprising number of common drugs have been found to be dangerous, causing illness or even death. Numerous medications have been removed from the market i... Read >
Author: srini30th July 2009
As almost any kind of prescription drug has the potential of being abused, you may be wondering why some drugs are more prone to being abused than others. Oxycontin ranks amongst the highest in prescription drugs that are in this category.
There are... Read >
Author: Daniel Berry23rd July 2009
In the past, OxyContin has been criticized as being the prescription drug of choice for abusers, who crush the pill and snort it, bypassing its time-release mechanism. Doing so sometimes has the unpleasant side effect of death. Some of the street names f... Read >
Author: Burton Norman07th July 2009
Is it just me or does it seem that Michael Jackson’s doctor, Conrad Murray has so far gotten away with something pretty big here. I’m typically not the suspicious type but when every single statement that this doctor says seems to be tailor made to e... Read >
Author: Robert Levin05th July 2009
Anyone who has been addicted to opiate drug before knows how difficult it can be to get off of them. Examples of opiates would be painkillers such as prescription medications like Vicodin or Oxycontin, but also street drugs such as opium and heroin. One... Read >
Author: Patrick Meninga05th July 2009
The “King of Pop” Michael Jackson is dead at only 50, joining many other celebrities and thousands of ordinary people whose untimely deaths associated with painkillers like OxyContin could have been avoided by a timely medical drug detox. What is it g... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart30th June 2009
Prescription drugs’ easy availability and high addictive qualities not only ruin the lives of those who are addicted, but also those who love and care for them. One only has to look in the nearest medicine cabinet to find a plethora of pain, anti-anxiet... Read >
Author: addictioprofessor19th June 2009
Adolescents exposed to opioid painkillers, especially OxyContin, are more likely to abuse opioids and other drugs and risk addiction in later life, say researchers. A ban on the drug will save countless lives.
Recent research from Rockefeller Universit... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart18th June 2009
As the grass-roots movement heats up to ban OxyContin, the opioid painkiller implicated in thousands of deaths, people addicted the drug from all levels of society, from cities, towns and villages, continue to search for effective OxyContin detox and reha... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart17th June 2009
Cocaine and heroin’s easy availability and high addictive qualities not only ruin the lives of those who are addicted, but also those who love and care for them. To throw into the mix of illicit drugs is Oxycontin, legally prescribed by doctors for pain... Read >
Author: addictioprofessor12th June 2009
Most manufacturers fight to keep their products off the black market; drug companies thrive on it.
Generally speaking, when someone spends time and money developing a product, they want to keep the distribution and price of that product under their con... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart11th June 2009
Thousands of patients arriving for OxyContin detox are victims of the all-too-common medical practice of smothering pain with the addictive narcotic, instead of finding the cause of the pain and curing it.
If you were driving down the road and a strang... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart04th June 2009
Millions of Americans live with pain. Chronic pain, daily pain, short-term pain. Of all medicines sold by online pharmacies, by far the most common type is Pain relievers. One might think then that online pharmacies are a great source of pain.
Well, di... Read >
Author: buycheaptramadol09902nd June 2009
Recently even more warnings have been issued on the purchase online, painkillers without a prescription or a prescription. Many people resort to painkillers buy online to save money or because they can get cheap painkillers from their local pharmacy. To p... Read >
Author: buycheaptramadol09915th May 2009
Are prescription painkillers being banned due to pressure from drug companies protecting their profits?
A lot of people are pretty down on the FDA these days, and rightly so: People are dying from, being harmed by, or becoming addicted to drugs the FD... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart15th May 2009
OxyContin addiction is the new doorway drug to ruined careers and lost lives, even when it begins as a legitimate prescription for the pain of injury and illness.
Thousands of Americans are becoming dependent and addicted to the opioid painkiller OxyCo... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart12th May 2009
There are many steps we can take to provide high quality health care at a lower cost. But reining in Big Pharma would be a good start.
In Obama’s press conference, he said that the most important thing we can focus on to get out of our economic mess ... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart11th May 2009
Methadone-related adverse events are climbing in greater proportion than the number of prescriptions for the drug, and deaths have increased by 400%. One painkiller after another has failed us. Is it time to look for non-drug solutions?
One of the majo... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart06th May 2009
Desperate to protect profits, drug companies waited with baited breath to find out if they're accountable for your injuries. Good news - they are.
The Purdue Pharma $634 million fine incurred for misleading the public, and doctors, about the addictiven... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart01st May 2009
Victims of prescription drug addiction and street drug addicts who overdose on opioids can often be saved by the drug naloxone, but the event should be followed immediately with admission to a medical drug detox facility, followed by lengthy drug rehab.
... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart24th April 2009
Prescription drug addiction is becoming a bigger and bigger problem in today's world. The main issue is that the use and abuse of these addictive pills has been steadily rising over the last several years, and it has now become the drug of choice among y... Read >
Author: Patrick Meninga22nd April 2009
The military is notorious for not taking care of our guys when they come home. New legislation proposes to force the issue, with civilian oversight.
Since the Iraq war started six years ago, legal use of prescription painkillers among wounded U.S. troo... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart16th April 2009
As the death toll from methadone soars across the country and methadone addiction continues to rise, the need for effective treatment has never been more important.
State death statistics across the country are showing that prescription drugs continue ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart09th April 2009
Legislative hearings to probe the OxyContin and heroin epidemic in Massachusetts will consider ways to battle opiate abuse in the state, including expanding OxyContin detox and drug rehab services.
Massachusetts State Senator Steven A. Tolman (D-Boston... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart04th April 2009
Methadone is a synthetic opiod, rigorously used as a pain reliever and in treating addiction to narcotics. In the case of morphine or heroin abuse, methadone occupies the opiod receptor in the brain and stabilizes it against the addiction to those opiates... Read >
Author: Stephen Jhonson04th April 2009
Methadone is a synthetic opiod, rigorously used as a pain reliever and in treating addiction to narcotics. In the case of morphine or heroin abuse, methadone occupies the opiod receptor in the brain and stabilizes it against the addiction to those opiates... Read >
Author: Stephen Jhonson27th March 2009
Thousands of Oklahomans, many of them young people, have fallen victim to oxycodone and OxyContin addiction, and thousands more to hydrocodone painkillers like Lortab and Vicodin.
Hydrocodone, sold under brand names such as Lortab and Vicodin, and the ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart13th March 2009
The move by many addicts from heroin to OxyContin, and the growing number of former heroin addicts needing OxyContin detox, tells you just how dangerously addictive the prescription painkiller really is.
Over the past year, the number of news reports a... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart10th March 2009
OxyContin addiction knows no geographic or social boundaries, striking people in all walks of life, in every corner of America.
Last December, in the quiet Massachusetts town of Hyannis on Cape Cod, Jordan Mendes, a 16-year-old high school sophomore, w... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart06th March 2009
OxyContin addiction is epidemic in our society, and opting for methadone ‘therapy’ to replace the narcotic is just jumping from the frying pan into the fire.
The more OxyContin a person takes, the more tolerant their bodies become to the addictive ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart04th March 2009
Governments, like individuals, choose their priorities when it comes to spending money. Is your state doing all it can to help prevent prescription drug abuse?
Dealers who sell prescription drugs to our family members often get their supplies by doctor... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart04th March 2009
Giving someone a methadone addiction is like putting that person in a prison where they are not confined by walls but by their dependence on the drug, says a detox expert, and getting off the drug is like getting out of jail.
Using the highly-addictive... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart17th February 2009
OxyContin addiction is a growing problem across the country, as thousands of people struggle to break the bonds of this powerfully-addictive prescription narcotic painkiller.
Addiction to the prescription narcotic painkiller OxyContin continues to plag... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart12th February 2009
Methadone addiction is a growing problem as doctors freely prescribe the powerfully addictive narcotic painkiller for common aches and pains.
Methadone, an addictive narcotic painkiller most commonly known for its controversial use as a “replacement ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart02nd February 2009
Having a few beers with friends is becoming a thing of the past. The latest trend is prescription drugs. And their side effects are dangerous, and deadly.
Years ago, kids used to look forward to going to college because they could drink. Sad to say, bu... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart02nd February 2009
When MTV’s award-winning reality show True Life, which targets teens and young adults, takes up prescription drug addiction, you can be sure it’s a widespread problem. The only improvement might have been more about the advantages of medical drug deto... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart06th January 2009
Near US vice president, Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin is a grandmother. Her 18 year old daughter Bristol just gave birth to a baby boy whom they allegedly named Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston. Bristol's fiancée and boyfriend of 3 years Levi Johnston is th... Read >
Author: Angie Ryan19th December 2008
Florida is the pill capital of the U.S. Prescription drug addiction and abuse is killing more Floridians than illegal drugs and no family is immune. Here’s one step you can take that will help handle the problem.
Are you worried about your kids or s... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart08th December 2008
Oxycontin has been used as a powerful painkiller for about the last 13 years. It is listed as a Schedule II controlled substance in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The generic form of this drug is known as oxycodone, and Oxycontin is just a cont... Read >
Author: globall0608th December 2008
Oxycontin has been used as a powerful painkiller for about the last 13 years. It is listed as a Schedule II controlled substance in the Controlled Substances Act of 1970. The generic form of this drug is known as oxycodone, and Oxycontin is just a cont... Read >
Author: globall0630th November 2008
Alcoholism, addiction to illicit street drugs, and now these days the growing problem of prescription drug addiction, can tear apart a family as it struggles to cope with the situation.
With each passing year, we hear more about prescription drug add... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart30th November 2008
A recent editorial in the Salt Lake Tribune on the dangers of prescription drugs suggests that in the five days from when it was written to when it was delivered to readers, five more people will have died from prescription drug addiction or abuse.
T... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart15th October 2008
When going to a doctor for help, most of us assume that the drug the doctor gives us will work and will be safe. In other words, the drug’s been tested, the correct dosage determined, and any reasons why it should not be taken have been isolated. Ho... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart26th September 2008
In the last year or two, Ohio has seen a significant increase in heroin addiction and the deaths, crime, illness and ruined lives that go with it. Why the sudden problem? Some experts feel it’s largely due to prescription drug addiction and abuse, e... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart17th September 2008
In the last year or two, Ohio has seen a significant increase in heroin addiction and the deaths, crime, illness and ruined lives that go with it. Why the sudden problem? Some experts feel it’s largely due to prescription drug addiction and abuse, espec... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart25th August 2008
In a recent interview Stephen Pasierb, President and CEO of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America, referred to prescription drugs as the new gateway drugs. Kids and young adults who wouldn’t consider taking heroin or cocaine are taking prescription dr... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart21st August 2008
Drug rehab refers to a term which is associated with the treatment of those persons who are addicted to either drugs or alcohol or both. In these fast times, people get anxious and tensed due to small things or changes in their lives. So to fight or rathe... Read >
Author: Alien16th August 2008
When it comes to prescription painkillers, we really seem to be between a rock and a hard place. After God knows how many people were killed, injured or turned into drug addicts with OxyContin, doctors started looking for alternatives. Many chose methadon... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart22nd July 2008
You can buy prescription medication without a prescription today! There are hundreds of online pharmacies which make this claim. The problem is, most of these pharmacies are illegal. Many will send you counterfeit drugs which at best are useless and at wo... Read >
Author: David Altfeder20th 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... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart04th June 2008
Prescription drug abuse is becoming a major problem next only to marijuana abuse. One of the main reasons for the growth of prescription drug abuse is the easy availability of the medications over the counter from a drug store, from a doctor or through on... Read >
Author: Stephen Jhonson11th May 2008
OxyContin killed my son. This drug is handed out like candy. Every year families everywhere are suffering the loss of a loved one from accidental overdoses from this addictive drug. "The Arizona Republic" newspaper reported that Purdue Pharma L.P., the ma... Read >
Author: kimlokke07th 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... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart07th April 2008
Some parents who dabbled in drugs when they were in their teens or early twenties may hear of their own kids smoking marijuana and not be too worried about it. After all, you lived through it and it seemed relatively harmless. What you may not know is tha... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart07th 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 ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart06th 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 ... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart04th April 2008
Since 1992 prescription drug abuse has increased by 94%. At the end of 2004 there were more individuals reporting prescription drug abuse than the combined number of individuals abusing cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, and heroin. Of particular concern ... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart29th February 2008
The Purdue Pharma settlement from the OxyContin hearings includes $44 million for West Virginia. There are fewer than 300 drug treatment beds available in the entire state and 14,000 people, that officials know about, need help. People addicted to and dep... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart29th February 2008
A new Bill was recently submitted to the House Health and Welfare Committee to allow random drug testing of adults who apply for or are already receiving public monies such as welfare, food stamps, or assistance under Kentucky’s medical assistance progr... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart28th February 2008
The back is an intricate structure of bones, ligaments, muscles, nerves, and tendons.
Back pain in the lower back or low back pain is a common concern, affecting up to 90% of Americans at some point in their lifetime. Up to 50% will have more than on... Read >
Author: Peter sams22nd January 2008
Have you ever been to a doctor and been given free samples of drugs? You might feel grateful: there’s something you don’t have to pay for. But those free samples are actually not just given to you out of the goodness of anyone’s heart - although the... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart22nd January 2008
It’s amazing how one little word can change the meaning of a sentence that yearns to mean something else. The new prescribing regulations from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) covering Schedule II drugs contains just such a word: “undue.” I... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart19th January 2008
With all the news about the dangers of prescription drugs - especially opioid painkillers like OxyContin, methadone and morphine - you would think people would be using less of them. However, judging by the statistics, including the number of people going... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart14th January 2008
OxyContin is an opium derivative, which contains the same active ingredient as in Percodan and Percocet. OxyContin is a very strong narcotic pain reliever similar to morphine. OxyContin is designed so that its oxycodone salt is slowly released over time. ... Read >
Author: Brenda Stokes07th January 2008
In the battle against soaring prescription drug addiction and abuse and deaths from prescription narcotics like OxyContin, Vicodin and methadone, our only front line of defense is the army of prescribing doctors. Monitoring how patients are doing and spot... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart28th August 2007
The influence of drug advertising on television and in magazines has been the focus of many news articles since the recent OxyContin hearings. And it’s no wonder: Relaxing, upbeat images in television drug ads distract the consumer from already insubsta... Read >
Author: Gloria MacTaggart17th August 2007
A recent survey revealed that only 6 percent of parents are concerned about the possibility of their kids abusing prescription drugs. Obviously, they haven’t seen the statistics. But what’s most troubling about this information is that if parents aren... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart16th August 2007
Addiction to prescription painkillers is a disease that has become increasingly prevalent in the United States as well as many other industrialized nations. Narcotic pain medications, also known as Opiate, are commonly prescribed by doctors for the treatm... Read >
Author: Kausik Dutta06th August 2007
You may have heard about a drug called Actiq – a berry-flavored lozenge on a stick that looks and tastes like a lollipop. It was approved by the FDA for cancer patients only, but is being prescribed for everything from migraines to back pain, and has fo... Read >
Author: Rod MacTaggart23rd July 2007
US researchers just announced that they will be conducting the first ever study to find a treatment for the addiction to such popular painkillers such as Oxycontin and Vicodin.
The study will be funded by the National Institute of Drug Abuse and will... Read >
Author: Joshua Daly05th July 2007
According to the study of “Teen drug use and attitudes”, it confirms that Generation Rx has arrived, as an alarming number of today’s teenagers are more likely to have abused Rx and OTC medications than a variety of illegal drugs like Ec... Read >
Author: Stephen Jhonson21st May 2007
A long life is usually a drug-free life. Pharmaceuticals may not be conducive to your longevity health.
Most recently, three of the top executives of Purdue Pharma pleaded guilty to criminal charges of misleading the public on the risk of addiction and... Read >
Author: Stephen Lau19th February 2007
Well, your search for cheaper medication may lead you to fraud drug dealers and eventually put your precious life to risk. The Internet is an increasingly important channel for the efficient and effective distribution of prescription drugs at lower prices... Read >
Author: Christine Macguire23rd January 2007
There are several methods of treating your chronic pain, from over the counter and prescription medications, to acupuncture and other more natural methods of pain management. It's important to realize, however, that no single method of pain management sho... Read >
Author: Doug Smith15th November 2006
You may not realize this but before buprenorphine treatment with suboxone or subutex was available, it was extremely difficult to treat opiate addiction outside of a hospital based detox. This all changed in 2002 when buprenorphine became legally availabl... Read >
Author: Stephen Gilman, M.D.30th August 2006
Oxycontin is a narcotic painkiller that is prescribed for people who have moderate to severe pain. This opioid works well when taken properly. However, as with any drug, Oxycontin also has effects. Oxycontin's effects can be categorized as both short-term... Read >
Author: Dillon Benderman21st August 2006
Oxycodone, most commonly known as Oxycontin, is a medication that is typically used for controlling pain, however it can also be used as a cough suppressant. Over the past ten years, Oxycontin addiction has been dramatically increasing. In fact, within th... Read >
Author: Dillon Benderman14th July 2006
Oxycodone is a prescription drug that acts as a depressant of the central nervous system. It is a narcotic, much like Vicodin and morphine and is used to treat moderate to severe pain like that caused by fractures, arthritis, childbirth and serious diseas... Read >
Author: Christy Berger02nd May 2006
"I'm an Advil guy" says one TV commercial, or in a series of unlikely scenarios, one depicts a couple of men fly-fishing and as soon as a man winces with 'arthritic pain' in his shoulder, his friend, in the middle of the wilderness, magically takes a new ... Read >
Author: No Last Name22nd August 2005
Prescription drug addiction is becoming a major problem in America. Prescription drugs are being prescribed for a wider variety of reasons and quite frequently, greatly increasing the chances that they will be misused. There are several disturbing presc... Read >
Author: Damian Sofsian19th August 2005
It seems that prescription drugs are being prescribed more than ever. Doctors prescribe drugs for pain, for mental health, and for insomnia. The majority of the people who are prescribed these drugs use them responsibly, taking the correct dose just unt... Read >
Author: Damian Sofsian
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