Roswell Park Nurse, Kelsey Mulvey Charged with Stealing Pain Meds, Violating HIPAA
U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy, Jr. announced today that Kelsey A. Mulvey, 27, of Grand Island, NY, was charged by criminal complaint with illegally obtaining controlled substances by fraud, tampering, and violation More...
The Hardest Addiction to Beat: Methadone
Western medicine today has found itself caught in the rut of prescribing drug after drug to treat issues related to addiction, often failing in their quest to get to the root of the problem, while opening the doors More...
The Different Treatment Approaches for Drug Addiction
Finding the most suitable treatment approach for drug addiction victims is an overwhelming task for both addicts and their family members. The task in itself may seem impossibly to achieve. Some patients take years More...
Is Prescription Painkillers the Answer to Heroin Addiction?
Everyone experiences pain at some point, and look for medical care. But pain is more than physical discomfort; it is also emotional, cognitive and potentially break the individual down if left unattended to; as More...
Maryland: Heroin overdose deaths up, prescription opioids overdose deaths down
Public domain photo/Psychonaught Newly released data from the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene shows that from Jan. to Jul. 2012, there was an increase in overdose deaths related to heroin coinciding More...
Methadone involved in one-third of prescription painkiller overdose deaths:CDC
Although the narcotic pain-killer and maintenance anti-addictive drug, methadone accounted for 2 percent of painkiller prescriptions in the United States in 2009, it was involved in more than 30 percent of prescription More...
