Prescription Drug Abuse Bill Studio Live

Published May 28, 2013

Prescription Drug Abuse Bill Studio Live – written, shot, and edited by Daniela Perallon for WHNT News 19 in Huntsville, Al. May 2013.

Former Prescription Drug Abuser Warns Parents About Addiction

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

ANNANDALE, Va. (WUSA) – "I went into my parent's medicine cabinet and took a bottle of Percocet," described Caitlin Acosta, 24, about the first time she thought about taking drugs. She was 12 years old. "I just remember the principal saying, this is …
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Schumer Launching Campaign To Reclassify Addictive Prescription Drug

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — There is a new push under way to reclassify a highly addictive and potentially dangerous narcotic painkiller that may already be in your medicine cabinet. Hydrocodone, better known by its brand name Vicodin, is derived from …
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Which Prescription Drugs Do Americans Abuse Most?

Filed under: prescription drug addiction

According to a 2010 study by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, approximately 7 million people in the United States — or 2.7 percent of the population — annually abuse prescription drugs. This abuse primarily occurs when people take medication not …
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