Increase in Urine Testing Raises Ethical Questions
Increase in Urine Testing Raises Ethical Questions
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Published: August 1, 2013. As doctors try to ensure their patients do not abuse prescription drugs, they are relying more and more on sophisticated urine-screening tests to learn which drugs patients are taking and — just as important — which ones …
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Deaths and near misses from over-the-counter painkiller abuse in south-west
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By SEAN McCOMISH. Aug. 3, 2013, 4 a.m.. DOCTORS in the south-west are making ground in the fight against prescription drug abuse that has taken lives and brought many more close to death.
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Hughestown officer busted for selling drugs while in uniform, on duty
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Federal agents, in an affidavit released Friday, said Officer Robert F. Evans Jr. sold the pills for $ 30 to $ 60 a pop to friends and a fellow police officer he knew had a prescription drug addiction. Evans was released under federal supervision …
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Timm Herdt: An antidote to perscription drug abuse
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If you answered "prescription drugs" to both questions, you have a fairly good awareness of why the federal Centers for Disease Control calls prescription drug abuse a public health epidemic. Drug overdose deaths in the United … The following year, a …
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