Category: Prescription Drug Addiction

Drug addiction and drug abuse scandals among politicians are not uncommon. What is uncommon is the politician who boldly agrees that he has a drug addiction – but adamantly holds his position and refuses to resign. A public regulation commissioner in New Mexico, Jerome Block [...]

Exhaustive research of over 300,000 hospital records has shown that individuals with a history of methamphetamine/amphetamine use are 76 percent more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. Scientists have presumed for decades that this connection may exist because both the drug and the disease [...]

You went to the doctor with a chronic pain issue: your back, the recurrence of an old injury, an acute injury caused by an accident or surgery. The prescription you got worked in the beginning, but then you needed a higher dosage in order to [...]

There are at least three patients of one Denver osteopath who died of an oxycodone overdose after developing an addiction to their oxycodone prescription. Dr. Kevin Clemmer was the prescribing physician, though he has not been charged with the deaths of those three patients, he [...]

Even when the most amazing things are happening in life –a new marriage, a new baby, a job promotion – drug addiction doesn’t care. When an active drug addiction is an issue, it’s almost impossible to avoid making really terrible, potentially life changing decisions. David [...]

Big Van Vader was a legend during his wrestling career with WCW and WWE. In a recent interview, he talks about why that career ended, how it spawned an addiction to alcohol  and prescription painkillers, and how that addiction ended his marriage and put him [...]

She was one of the biggest supermodels of her decade, and little has been heard of her professionally since she stopped making calendars and doing swimsuit shoots on island beaches, but Paulina Porizkova has been doing quite a bit in the past few years. Now [...]

Pete Townshend is famous for a lot of things: the classic rock operas he’s written, his performances as a guitarist for The Who, his alleged attempts to seek out child pornography, and of course, his struggles with drug addiction. The musician has decided to do [...]

Prescription drug addiction is a huge problem in every region of the United States. Rural areas and urban areas, men and women, young and old – there is no group or culture or geographic location in our country that is safe from the rapidly growing [...]

Prescription drug addiction is an ongoing problem in every state in the country and different states are brainstorming on how they can catch those who are abusing the system and identify those who need prescription drug addiction treatment before they enable someone else into addiction [...]