Prescription Drug Addiction Treatment Headlines
Gen. Barry McCaffrey comes to Wilmington to talk about drug abuse treatment
All of the panelists at the Wilmington Treatment Center’s National Alcohol and Drug Addiction Recovery Month ceremony were dressed in suit and tie, except two.
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The Partnership for a Drug-Free America® Presents New Research-Based Programs at National Prevention Network Conference
DENVER, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Patricia Russo, chairman of the Partnership for a Drug-Free America today provided keynote remarks and joined Steve Pasierb, Partnership CEO and Ken Winters, PhD., chairman of the organization's science advisory board and professor at the University of Minnesota, to review a number of new research-based programs from the Partnership at the National ...
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Addict aims to end the misery of prescription drug
Chris Sutherland wasn’t worried when he started snorting OxyContin regularly as a teenager.
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Floridians Prepare To Take Back The State
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- September's National Pain Awareness Month has never been more important for the state of Florida. Recent data from the Florida Medical Examiner shows residents are dying at a rate of at least 7 per day as a result of prescription drug abuse. In an effort to combat this sobering statistic and bring the prescription addiction epidemic to the forefront ...
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Is abstinence the best policy for addiction?
Noreen Oliver, the award-winning advocate of an abstinence-based approach to rehab, tells Mary O'Hara addicts need choice Noreen Oliver strides into her brightly painted office, smiles broadly and takes a seat opposite a framed collage of newspaper cuttings featuring her outside the rehabilitation centre that she runs. "Sometimes I come in and I look around and I think, 'How did I do all of this ...
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