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Abuse of prescription drugs is growing rapidly around the world, with more people abusing legal narcotics than heroin, cocaine, and Ecstasy combined, the United Nations global drugs watchdog said on Wednesday.
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Thousands of Oklahomans are fighting an addiction to prescription pain killers. According to a report in News on 6, former Oklahoma State University basketball coach is just one of these individuals.
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Dr. Conrad Murray’s homicide charge last week–in connection with the death of Michael Jackson–brought back into focus the complicated relationships some celebrities strike up with their personal physicians.
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To say there is a problem with prescription medications in the United States would be an understatement. A recent piece in the Dispatch reported that Ohio pharmacists filled 2.7 million prescriptions in 2008 for such painkillers as OxyContin and Percocet. This amount equates to nearly one for every four people in the state.
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Post partum depression has been identified as a real and potentially life-threatening mental condition that can impact a new mother generally after the birth of a child. It does not have to be a first child for the woman and there is no guarantee on whether or not a woman will have to deal with this or for how long. An estimated 19 percent of new mothers suffer from post partum.
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There is a growing problem of medication fraud and diversion in the United States and Pitt County is no deviation from the norm. According to a piece in the Reflector, the County Sheriff’s Office is paying closer attention to these problems, with Sheriff Mac Manning at the lead.
