Our Middle-Aged and Elderly Citizens Are America's Forgotten Addicts

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I thought of Limbaugh and others who have suffered similar prescription drug/controlled substance addictive fates in light of a recent spate of deaths within the middle-age population of people I either knew or had a friendship with their close …
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Prescription drugs: Understanding the 'epidemic'

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“In the initial discussion of these drugs, dating back all the way to the 1980s, the risk of addiction was underestimated, and that coincided with a radical change in health care behavior, where the tendency became prescribe instead of treat,” said Dr …
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BBB shares advice for filling prescriptions online

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Then there are those who may be trying to acquire prescription drugs for recreational use or who have even become addicted to certain drugs. Whatever the reason … They may not help the condition or disease the medicine is meant to treat. — They …
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