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How Many People Have To Die From OxyContin Addiction Before The FDA Takes Action?
By Rod Mactaggart · 14 years ago
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 ...
Treat Heroin Addiction With Heroin, Say So-called Addiction Experts
By Rod Mactaggart · 14 years ago
Instead of an effective heroin detox followed by long-term rehabilitation, so-called addiction "experts" are recommending heroin addicts be "treated" with more heroin.
Have you ever injured yourself -- hit your thumb with a hammer, banged ...
OxyContin Abuse Skyrocketing In Oklahoma, Says State Narcotics Bureau
By Rod Mactaggart · 15 years ago
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 ...
Prescription Drug Addiction Is Not An ‘Incurable Brain Disease’
By Rod Mactaggart · 15 years ago
As anyone who has successfully completed medical drug detox and recovered their life will tell you, drug addiction is a physical drug dependence complicated by mental and emotional problems -- all of which can resolve ...
Life After Successful Methadone Detox Is Like Getting Out Of Prison
By Rod Mactaggart · 15 years ago
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 ...
Suburban Teen Prescription Drug Addiction And Drug Deaths Rising
By Rod Mactaggart · 15 years ago
Parents, even those familiar with medical drug detox programs because of their own drug problems, are often the last to know that their teenage kids are abusing prescription drugs, and moving on to heroin and ...
Drug Detox, Not Suboxone, Is The Doorway To A Real Solution For Opiate Addiction
By Rod Mactaggart · 15 years ago
Police seizures of the opiate addiction maintenance drug buprenorphine are skyrocketing in Baltimore, MD, and according to officials it is typical of a national trend. Under publicly funded "addiction maintenance" programs, addicts are being prescribed ...
Drug Detox Q & A: Do You Really Want to Trade Your Symptoms for Thoughts of Suicide?
By Gloria Mactaggart · 16 years ago
The list of drugs that cause people to consider suicide is growing: It used to be primarily a side effect of the class of antidepressants called Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (SSRIs), but now includes other ...
Drug Detox Could Use Some of the $60 Billion Big Pharma Spends on Advertising
By Gloria Mactaggart · 16 years ago
According to a recent news article, Big Pharma spends almost double the amount on advertising as on research and development. Of the $235.4 billion domestic sales income in 2004, 24.4% went to promotion, and a ...
Alcohol Detox and Rehab Is Too Late For Death From Alcohol Poisoning
By Rod Mactaggart · 16 years ago
For weeks and months we’ve been hearing and reading about the alcohol-related misadventures of famous families and Hollywood celebrities and how, one for one, they are all atoning for their behavior, apologizing (or not) to ...
Alcohol Detox Q & A: Is Frequent 'Light' Drinking Alcohol Abuse?
By Gloria Mactaggart · 16 years ago
When I was younger I often went to friends’ homes after school and was there when their parents arrived home from work. Their usual routine was to walk through the door, kick off their shoes ...