Drug News

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Part 1: “Flushing Your Meds” – WECT News

If you check every warning label, you won’t find instructions for how to dispose of your prescriptions. With no federal or state regulation for consumers, many people leave them to gather dust in medicine cabinets or simply flush them down the toilet.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Part 2: “Flushing your meds” – WECT News

While prescription drugs can help in curing some ailments, they can be dangerous if used the wrong way.

DRUGS – UK
DrugScope welcomes government response to review of drug education – Drug Scope

DrugScope, the national membership organisation for the drug sector, has today welcomed the government response to a review of drug education undertaken by the Advisory Group on Drug and Alcohol Education.

DRUG – UK
Effective Drug Education Survey – Findings – The Drug Education Forum

A web based survey of over 350 drug education professionals. As part of the Children’s Plan the government committed themselves to reviewing the effective delivery of drug education in England.

METH – USA
Meth Expert Talks at the Idaho Conference on Health Care – KPVI News

Meth is a problem all over the country, because it’s a highly addictive drug. Thursday afternoon an expert addressed this growing problem at the Idaho conference on health care. Giving insight into a Meth addicts’ head.

DRUGS – USA
Prescription drug abuse bigger problem now than meth: Webb – Carmi Times

The good news, according to White County State’s Attorney T. Scott Webb, is that the methamphetamine epidemic that swept across White County several years ago has subsided. The bad news is that it has been supplanted, in part, by the abuse of prescription drugs.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
Guv, local authorities fight against prescription drug deaths – Herald Extra

Prescription pain medication overdoses claimed 317 lives last year and 307 the year before, making it the No. 1 cause of injury death in the state. Such deaths — whether because of abuse or accident — more than doubled here between 1999 and 2004.

PRESCRIPTION – USA
More people continue to be injured, killed by prescription drugs – Seattle Post Intelligencer

A record number of deaths and serious injuries associated with prescription drugs were reported in the first quarter of 2008. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration received 20,745 new cases of serious injuries during the first quarter, an increase of 38 percent over 2007. The number of deaths reported is 4,824, a 2.6-fold increase from the previous quarter.

ALCOHOL – USA
Survey: Alcohol abuse remains problem at UConn – Newsday

One of every four University of Connecticut students say they have blacked out from heavy drinking during Spring Weekend festivities, according to a new survey.