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Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy

Drug Abuse Is Closer to Home Then you Think!

http://www.teenchallenge.ca/get-help/canadian-drug-crisis

Canadian Drug Crisis - Teen Challenge Canada

Sign this petition to ban Oxycontin

How much to prescribe to whom - pharmacogenomics | the Conference

Pharmaceutical Research Practices Under Siege | the Conference

Tracking opioid use vital to avoiding scourge

Deaths from prescription painkillers* have reached epidemic levels in the past decade. The number of overdose deaths is now greater than those of deaths from heroin and cocaine combined.

Vital Signs - Prescription Painkiller Overdoses in the US

http://www.cdc.gov/VitalSigns/PainkillerOverdoses/index.html#Science

Quotas - 2011 - Controlled Substances: Proposed Aggregate Production Quotas for 2012

Drugs@FDA

Public health surveillance system that monitors drug-related hospital emergency departments (EDs) and drug-related deaths investigated by medical examiners and coroners (MEs) Drug Reference Vocabulary (ZIP - 7.4 MB) Drug Reference Vocabulary - Multum License Agreement (PDF - 38 KB) Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2010: Area Profiles of Drug-related Mortality (PDF - 18.6 MB) Highlights of the 2010 Drug Abuse Warning Network (DAWN) Findings on Drug-Related Emergency Department Visits (PDF - 409 KB) Guide to Drug Abuse Warning Network Trend Tables, 2010 (PDF - 152 KB) Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2010: Methodology Report (PDF - 778 KB) Drug Abuse Warning Network, 2010: Glossary (PDF - 142 KB)

www.samhsa.gov/data/DAWN.aspx

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new formulation of the controlled-release drug OxyContin.

Postmarket Drug Safety Information for Patients and Providers > OxyContin - Questions and Answers

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/PostmarketDrugSafetyInformationforPatientsandProviders/ucm207196.htm

http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DrugSafety/InformationbyDrugClass/ucm163647.htm

Information by Drug Class > Opioid Drugs and Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS)

On July 9, 2012, FDA approved a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for extended-release (ER) and long-acting (LA) opioid medications.

Drugs

The great direct-to-consumer prescription drug advertising con: how patients and doctors alike are easily influenced to demand dangerous drugs

A cute, animated ball bounces around very sadly until he takes a magic potion; suddenly, it becomes happier than ever.

http://www.naturalnews.com/010315_direct-to-consumer_advertising_drug_ads.html

Memoirs of an Addicted Brain | A neuroscientist examines his former life on drugs.

Big Pharma Wins - Canadian Public Loses Again

Trends in opioid use and dosing among socio-economically disadvantaged patients | Gomes | Array

Facts on Prescription Drug Deaths and the Drug Industry | the Conference

The Issue:

Big Pharma « Canadian Health Coalition

http://healthcoalition.ca/main/issues/big-pharma/

ARPO - Advocates for the Reform of Prescription Opioids

Commonly Abused Prescription Drugs Chart

Medications can be effective when they are used properly, but some can be addictive and dangerous when abused. This chart provides a brief look at some prescribed medications that—when used in ways or by people other than prescribed—have the potential for adverse medical consequences, including addiction. In 2010, approximately 16 million Americans reported using a prescription drug for nonmedical reasons in the past year; 7 million in the past month.