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The marketing of OxyContin
(NaturalNews) No parent wants to lose a child, but when one dies from something that should be very preventable, the heartbreak and tragedy is compounded. Such is increasingly the case with prescription drugs - they're killing our youth.
Pharmageddon: Prescription drugs are killing America's youth
Prescription drugs responsible for more deaths than traffic accidents, study finds
(NaturalNews) Every 14 minutes, a person is killed by prescription drugs -- and unlike most other causes of preventable death, which have been on the decline for years, medication-induced deaths are on the upswing across the US.Editor's note: This is the first in a three-part weekly series about opiate use in Sarnia-Lambton.
SPECIAL REPORT: Sarnia awash in painkillers; one woman’s struggle with addiction - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA
, automobile accidents are no longer the nation’s leading cause of accidental deaths, according to a major report released Tuesday by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The 10 Most Dangerous Meds Driving America's Pill Crisis | Personal Health
Ontario reserves plead for help to fight OxyContin addictions
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HOOKED, PART 3: Sarnia's battle with a prescription painkiller epidemic - The Sarnia Observer - Ontario, CA
Editor's note: This is the third in a three-part series about opiate use in Sarnia-LambtonAre Pill Mill Pharmacies replacing Family Pharmacies throughout the country?
Dec-10-2011 02:20 Marianne Skolek Salem-News.com "It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty -- and how few by deceit."
Abuse of prescribed medicines takes deadly toll
The 230-pound Castle Hayne man, who had a tattoo of Johnny Cash on his shoulder, was dead. Alcohol and seven prescription drugs, including anxiety medication for which he had a prescription, were in his system, according to an autopsy report. He was one of almost 4,000 people in North Carolina who died between Jan. 1, 2006 and August of this year as a result of taking prescription drugs, a number climbing at a steady rate.But the pills continue to have an influential champion in the American Pain Foundation, which describes itself as the nation’s largest advocacy group for pain patients.
Patient advocacy group funded by success of painkiller drugs, probe finds
This is part of our year-end series, looking at where things stand in each of our major investigations. Some of the nation's top medical schools cracked down on professors who give paid promotional talks for drugmakers last year, and the firms themselves cut back on such spending in the wake of mounting scrutiny.
Drug Companies Reduce Payments to Doctors as Scrutiny Mounts
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