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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In Mind over Meds, bestselling author Dr. Andrew Weil alerts readers to the problem of overmedication, and outlines when medicine is necessary, and when it is not. Dr. Weil examines how we came to be so drastically overmedicated, presents science that proves drugs aren't always the best option, and provides reliable integrative medicine approaches to treating common ailments like high blood pressure, allergies, depression, and even the common cold....
Series
Reference shelf volume 89, no. 5
Publisher
Grey House Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Draws on primary and secondary sources to examine the issue of prescription drug abuse.
Publisher
Office of the Governor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
The abuse of prescription drugs is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States, particularly among adolescents. Colorado ranks second worst among all states for prescription drug misuse. More than 255,000 Coloradans misuse prescription drugs, and deaths involving the use of opioids nearly quadrupled between 2000 and 2011.
Publisher
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Violence and Injury Prevention-Mental Health Promotion Branch
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This profile summarizes controlled substance prescriptions that Colorado residents received from 2014-2016, prescribing practices and patient behaviors, population-level health care encounters and deaths related to opioid overdose among Colorado residents. This information is from several sources: The Colorado Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (PDMP), emergency department visit and hospital discharge databases and death certificates.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Just because a drug is legal doesn't mean it's safe to abuse it. Abusing prescription painkillers like OxyContin, Percocet and Vicodin is no safe than trying much harder drugs. These drugs are vastly abused and represent of of today's largest drug epidemics.
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Prescription drugs seem completely safe to many people. After all, trained medical professionals prescribe them to help us. However, prescription drugs can be unsafe if used improperly. Some interact with other medicines and can cause problems. Others can be addictive. Some people may take drugs that aren't prescribed to them because the drugs make them feel good. The age-appropriate language, informative fact boxes, and photographs in this book...
Author
Series
Harry Bosch mysteries volume 20
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Harry Bosch is back as a volunteer working cold cases for the San Fernando police and is called out to a local drug store where a young pharmacist has been murdered. Bosch and the town's three-person detective squad sift through the clues, which lead into the dangerous big-business world of prescription drug abuse. Meanwhile, an old case from Bosch's LAPD days comes back to haunt him when a long-imprisoned killer claims Harry framed him and seems...
19) Bottled Up
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Faye's world revolves around her grown daughter Sylvie who has an addiction to pain killers. When environmentalist Beckett moves to town, Faye befriends him hoping he may raise Sylvie's spirits. But instead Beckett begins to fall for Faye. Faye is soon forced to decide whether to enable her daughter's addiction or find the happiness that she has long denied herself.
Publisher
Colorado Consortium for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention
Pub. Date
2013-
Language
English
Description
The abuse of prescription medicine is the fastest growing drug problem in the United States, particularly among teens. Nearly 224,000 Coloradans misuse prescription drugs each year. Links to information on safe use, safe storage, and safe disposal of prescription medicine.