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With the frequent use of Xanax as a treatment for anxiety disorders, many people have gone beyond the recommended use in an attempt to feel calmer and more in control of their lives. It is strange that the very medication used to give relief to those suffering from anxiety, stress, phobias, and panic attacks is now being used as a party drug. ...

The flow of illegal drugs across our nation's borders has received much publicity over the last few years. It is, admittedly, a serious problem. Most Americans might be surprised to learn, however, that prescription drug abuse has eclipsed the misuse of all other illegal drugs combined apart from abuse of marijuana. While leaders continue to debate whether such problems are best addressed from the supply si ...

For persons lost in the haze of addiction, hitting rock bottom can happen repeatedly before the message penetrates the fog. Such appears to be the story of Clifford Harris, better known to his fans as the rapper T.I. The singer's young life contains a long string of drug-related problems with the law. The latest meeting with the law was an 11-month jail sentence for possession of drugs while still on probat ...

The widespread abuse of prescription painkillers has led to multiple initiatives to monitor and reduce opioid painkiller use in North America. Recently, the Government of Ontario initiated a new program to monitor narcotics prescriptions as a part of Canada's national initiative to reduce painkiller addictions. ...

Feds believe they're making progress in a push to stop abuse of prescription painkillers but they still say doctors in the U.S. are prescribing sufficient addictive prescription painkillers to medicate every individual American 24 hours a day for one month. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the chief cause of fatalities may not be car crashes for much longer if prescription painkiller abus ...

In 1996 Purdue Pharma introduced a new painkiller called OxyContin. Within just four years, sales of the drug went from $48 million to $1.16 billion. By 2004 OxyContin was a leading drug of abuse in the United States. How did this happen so fast?  ...

The nonmedical use of pain relievers has become an increasing problem, with use of prescription pain relievers second only to marijuana in 2008 for illegal drug use. The Treatment Episode Data Set collects information about the primary substance of abuse when individuals are admitted to treatment facilities. A recent report from TEDS data compares characteristics of admissions related to primary use of pres ...

Steroids have been a part of some athletes’ muscle-building strategies for decades, first emerging on the health scene originally in 1930s. During this time, researchers created man-made forms of testosterone, a hormone responsible for many male gender traits. Sixty years later, steroids joined the list of other substances that are controlled by law with the Anabolic Steroids Control Act of 1990 ...

Each and every one of us has the potential to be a drug dealer. Many of us may already be one, or may have been one in the past. How can that possibly be, you ask? Well, you may very well be a fine, upstanding citizen with a nine-to-five five job who drives a Volvo, but if you’re not locking your medicine cabinet you are also a drug dealer in the making. Studies show that over eighty percent of abused presc ...

Parents often worry that treating chronic childhood illnesses with medication could turn those children into drug addicts later in life. However, is not treating the illness the answer? Studies show that children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) who are not treated with ADHD medications are more likely to become drug addicts than those who take the ADHD medications. ...