prescription drugs

How States Are Tackling the Opioid Crisis

Scientific article

1 March 2017

ABSTRACT Objectives: We used data from the 2015 National Association of State Alcohol and Drug Abuse Directors Web-based questionnaire and other sources to demonstrate the range and scope of state initiatives being used to deal with the...

SAMHSA Opioid Overdose Prevention Toolkit

Book

25 January 2016

This toolkit offers strategies to health care providers, communities, and local governments for developing practices and policies to help prevent opioid-related overdoses and deaths. Access reports for community members, prescribers...

The Opiate Epidemic - Free Access Article Collection

News

Although the abuse of many substances has declined across the globe in recent years, the misuse of prescription and non-medical pharmaceutical opioids has significantly increased. The Taylor & Francis Group, which publishes peer-reviewed...

Pain Management Nursing Conference

13 September 2017

Phoenix

United States

This conference will address important pain management issues, increase the knowledge and skills of pain management nursing professionals and promote the development of the nursing profession.

Participants will be able to:

'Big data' on American Youth

Book

13 December 2016

Last week the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released the results of the annual Monitoring the Future Survey.

This Is Your Brain on Opiates

News

Prescription drug abuse has become a major public health and safety concern. Research has shown that legal drugs, such as OxyContin, now kill more people than illegal drugs, such as heroin and cocaine. Nowadays, people are constantly being...