By Brent McCluskey The Commonwealth of Kentucky has joined two California counties and the city of Chicago in suing the makers of the highly addictive painkiller. The state of Kentucky has filed a hefty lawsuit against OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma and is holding the massive company responsible for the state’s overwhelming drug problem. Purdue Pharma […]
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The report finds almost 60 percent of Americans who take opioid painkillers combine them with other prescriptions medications. That is a potentially deadly combinations. Dr. Holly Phillips joins “CBS This Morning” to explain the risks. WATCH THE VIDEO
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JAMA Psychiatry A Randomized, Double-blind Evaluation of Buprenorphine Taper Duration in Primary Prescription Opioid Abusers Stacey C. Sigmon, PhD; Kelly E. Dunn, PhD; Kathryn Saulsgiver, PhD; Mollie E. Patrick, MA; Gary J. Badger, MS; Sarah H. Heil, PhD; John R. Brooklyn, MD; Stephen T. Higgins, PhD Importance Although abuse of prescription opioids (POs) is a
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NEW CNN ORIGINAL SERIES PREMIERES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28 AT 10 P.M. ET/PT In THIS IS LIFE, award-winning journalist and author Lisa Ling takes us on a gritty, breathtaking journey to far corners of America. Here, Ling introduces us to sub-cultures and communities that are unusual, extraordinary and sometimes dangerous; often getting people to share things that
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by Dawn Roberts So You Thought You Could Get Off Suboxone? Maybe the headline in the press release for Bunavail says it all: First and Only FDA-Approved (Buccal Formulation) of Buprenorphine and Naloxone to compete in the $1.7 Billion and Growing U.S. Opioid Dependence Market. $1.7 billion and growing, they got that part right. Heroin
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By Cathy Herard on March 26, 2014 Dr Oz: Prescription Medication Addiction Dr. Oz says there is a big change in the medical community that has him scared. Zohydro is a powerful new opioid pain medication that could send drug abuse in America to epidemic levels.It is five times stronger than any other pain medication
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By Cathy Herard on March 26, 2014 Dr Oz: Phillip Seymour Hoffman Heroin Addiction Heroin has been gripping the headlines since the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, but the new faces of addiction might surprise you. Dr. Oz asked Elisabeth Leamy to conduct an investigation into how heroin use starts and why there is
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by Dr. Steven Scanlan, M.D. Palm Beach Outpatient Detox in Boca Raton, Florida is South Florida’s cutting edge, outpatient treatment facility, creating a new path to recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Steven R. Scanlan, M.D. opened PBOD in 2008 with the goal to detoxify their patients from drugs and alcohol using minimal amounts of
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We trust doctors with our lives. They’re supposed to take care of us. But physicians are only human. Government studies indicate at least 100,000 doctors — or about one in 10 currently working — is addicted to drugs or alcohol. Some are performing surgeries while stoned, injuring and even killing unsuspecting patients, according to TODAY
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Two doctors have been sentenced to prison time for money laundering in one of the largest South Florida cases involving “pill mill” clinics that illegally dispensed vast amounts of prescription painkillers. Dr. Cynthia Cadet was sentenced last week to more than six years in prison and Dr. Joseph Castronuovo got a
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