Elderly Also Face Prescription Drug Abuse – Daily Comet

Elderly also face prescription drug abuse – Daily Comet

Elderly also face prescription drug abuse
Daily Comet
Screening for drug abuse in the elderly is difficult because most will deny symptoms and usage. Most elderly patients will try to hide inappropriate prescription drug usage by visiting several physicians and obtaining numerous prescriptions for Valium

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St. Johnsbury Forum Takes Aim At Drug Addiction – Vermont Public Radio


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St. Johnsbury Forum Takes Aim At Drug Addiction
Vermont Public Radio
The group of concerned citizens gathered in a church basement has been meeting for a few years to brainstorm ways to fight drug addiction in the Northeast Kingdom, but it picked up fresh steam after one of its members, film-maker Bess O'Brien, made her 

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Committee To Study Drug Addiction Treatment – WBUR

Committee To Study Drug Addiction Treatment
WBUR
According to the state Department of Health and Human Services, Section 35, as the statute is called, “permits the courts to involuntarily commit someone whose alcohol or drug use puts themselves or others at risk. Such a commitment can lead to an

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