Addiction to Painkillers News Report
Addiction to Painkillers News Report – Clip thanks to www.medstores.net No one swallowing doctor-prescribed painkillers does so with the intention of getting addicted. We take them, for example, to ease post-surgery pain or deal with pain related to diseases, such as cancer. Still, for some people with particular natures and certain risk factors — who use these medications for good initial reasons — the risk of addiction exists. Not all prescription painkillers are potentially habit-forming. For example, SSRIs are not, while opiods are.
FDA Likely to Add Limits on Painkillers
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The recommendation, which the drug agency is likely to follow, would limit access to the drugs by making them harder to prescribe, a major policy change that advocates said could help ease the growing problem of addiction to painkillers, which exploded … Read more on New York Times
Making the pain of prescription drug overdose go away
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Our pills for pain, prescribed legitimately, become addictive. Our pills for anxiety or depression can become a crutch. And pills that belong to someone else can kill us. Serena Garrett, a 12-year-old Lincoln girl, died last March after overdosing on … Read more on Lincoln Journal Star