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In Quarryville, PA headlines have been grabbed by just the latest evidence of our nation’s epidemic problem with prescription drug abuse. It was there that a state senator’s son (just 20 years young) was handed down a felony drug charge for his role in the overdose fatality of 21 year old Andrew Glassmyer. Continue Reading
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Do you know what’s in the painkillers you buy over the counter? According to a new study, many Americans are confused about the ingredients of popular painkillers. This greatly increases the risk of overdosing or combining pills that shouldn’t mix.
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Prescription Drug Overdose Deaths Exceed Deaths Related to Cocaine and Heroin Combined
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April 28, 2011A new report released by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with its colleagues as the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine and Duke University Medical Center, states that accidental overdose deaths caused by prescription drugs now exceed the number suicides and motor vehicle deaths in some U.S. states. Based on data from 2007, prescription drug-related deaths now account for 36 percent of all poisoning suicides, and in some states surpass the number of heroin- and cocaine-related accidental deaths combined.
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Hospital Admissions for Drug-Related Conditions Increase Among Middle-Aged People
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November 4, 2010Hospital admissions for adverse drug reactions have doubled between 1997 and 2008, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Anyone who has kids, or has even babysat kids, knows that they have to be watched like hawks in order to keep them safe. The typical home has an alarmingly large number of potential deadly situations for young children. Children can fall down stairs, ingest small objects or household solvents, drown in the bathtub, or run out the door into the street, to name just a few of the more scary scenarios.
