Tag: prescription drug abuse
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Improvements to Rx monitoring systems worth the expense, study finds; using systems influence doctors’ prescribing decisions
A plan for an ideal prescription drug monitoring system was published today in the New England Journal of Medicine, with its authors concluding spending more money to improve systems is...
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4 of 5 Kentuckians think child obesity is a problem, and more than half favor a statewide smoking ban, poll finds
More than four out of five Kentuckians think too many children are overweight, and more than half want a statewide smoking ban. These are two of key findings of the...
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State prescription drug databases like KASPER cut back doctor shopping and drug abuse, new study shows
Photo by iStockphoto Research from the University of North Carolina indicates drug databases like the Kentucky All Schedule Prescription Electronic Reporting system do reduce doctor shopping and change prescribing behavior....
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Beshear OKs prescription bill, telling pill mills, ‘Get out of this state’
Saying it couldn’t get to his desk quickly enough, Gov. Steve Beshear signed a bill aimed at curbing prescription drug abuse in celebration today, warning so-called pill mills to “Get...
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1 in 4 grandparents keep meds where kids can reach them
A new poll shows nearly one in four grandparents say they store prescription medicines in places that can be accessed by children. Unintentional poisonings cause more visits to the emergency...
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Docs must stop over-prescribing pain pills, summit speakers say
When a statistic showed the number of opioid prescriptions increased from 76 million in 1991 to 219 million in 2011, Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug...
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Troubling statistics discussed at prescription-drug summit
Staggering statistics were revealed this week at the Orlando-based National Rx Drug Abuse Summit, including one survey that found 2 million people age 12 and older started using prescription pain...
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Beshear tells national audience legislature should pass pill-mill bill
Today, Gov. Steve Beshear again called on legislators to pass a bill Thursday that would crack down on so-called pill mills and thus curb prescription drug abuse. Speaking at the...
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Rx Drug Abuse Summit in Florida, organized by Ky. group, set to start as lobbying on ‘pill-mill bill’ continues to ramp up
By Tara Kaprowy Kentucky Health News As a bipartisan group of political leaders pushes the General Assembly to pass a bill Thursday that would crack down on “pill mills” that...
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Pain-pill problem has spread to new areas from Appalachia
Sales of hydrocodone (the key ingredient of Vicodin, Norco and Lortab) and oxycodone (the main ingredient in OxyContin, Percocet and Percodan) skyrocketed in new parts of the country as the...