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Sharing Prescriptions Can Bring Harm, Not Healing

November 11, 2009 - 12:36pm

WEDNESDAY, Nov. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Sharing prescription medication with a family member or friend who needs care may seem like the right thing to do, even an act of kindness. But new research highlights the potential hazards of passing these medicines around.

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FDA Advisers Back New OxyContin Pill

September 24, 2009 - 4:54pm

U.S. health advisers on Thursday recommended approval of a new version of the painkiller OxyContin that is designed to lessen its misuse.

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New OxyContin Offers 'Limited' Resistance to Abuse: FDA

September 22, 2009 - 2:24pm

A new version of the painkiller OxyContin is somewhat harder to abuse than the current version, say U.S. health officials.

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Prescription Drug Abuse Declines, Study Finds

September 11, 2009 - 12:10pm

Abuse of prescription drugs such as the painkiller Oxycontin declined last year from 2007, reversing an upward trend, a U.S. drug survey finds.

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Abuse of ADHD Drugs on the Rise

August 24, 2009 - 7:07am

MONDAY, Aug. 24 (HealthDay News) -- As more and more prescriptions are being written for medications to treat attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), more and more children are abusing these drugs.

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Medicines Top Source of Kids' Poisonings

August 4, 2009 - 7:04am

TUESDAY, Aug. 4 (HealthDay News) -- The leading cause of accidental poisonings among American children can be found in the family medicine cabinet, a new government report shows.

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Questions to Pharmacists Rise After Michael Jackson's Death

July 9, 2009 - 7:19am

THURSDAY, July 9 (HealthDay News) -- News reports about a possible link between pop star Michael Jackson's death and his alleged abuse of prescription drugs may have increased the public's concern abo

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If 2 Painkillers Are Banned, What Next?

July 2, 2009 - 1:04pm

THURSDAY, July 2 (HealthDay News) -- Banning the popular painkillers Percocet and Vicodin, which a U.S.

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European Regulator Wants Painkiller Off Market

June 26, 2009 - 8:09am

The painkiller dextropropoxyphene should be withdrawn from the European market because patients using the 50-year-old drug have been dying from overdoses, says the European Medicines Agency (EMEA).

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Painkillers Linked To Increase In Overdose Deaths

December 9, 2008 - 2:39pm

(HealthDay News) -- Deaths from overdoses of prescription drugs, primarily pain relievers, appear to be on the rise throughout the United States, new research suggests.

West Virginia, in particular

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