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Prescription Drug Overdose- CDC & ASTHO 2008-This report presents health agency leadership perspectives from nine states on how prescription drug overdose has emerged as a national public health problem.... Since 1999, abuse, misuse, and overdose of prescription drugs have significantly increased. Each year more than 20,000 persons in the United States die from drug overdose.

Prescription Drug Monitoring Program Legislation Info

These fact sheets are good information to post in schools, dorms, offices, churches....
  Narcotic/Opioids         Sedative/Hypnotics        Stimulants           Illegal Drugs
 

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Prescription Drug Fact Sheet: Compares prescription drugs- Narcotic, Sedatives and Stimulants
Pill Cards: (Narcotic, Sedatives, Stimulants and Illegal Drugs
Combination of pill cards and fact sheet (portrait 2 sheets)

Be Medwise

Medline Plus: Prescription Drug Misuse Articles

Other Drug Information:
Drug Facts  Drug Guide by Names  Drug Slangs and Term  Street Terms

DEA Multimedia Library   DEA Drug Information DEA Drugs of Abuse and chart
   FDA Orange book: cross-reference proprietary name and active ingredient
   Get Smart about Drugs (Parents and Kids) Protecting your Brain (Kids with parents)
Real News about Drugs and your Body
NIDA- Commonly prescribed medication: use and consequences
Fast Facts archived- NDIC- Bulletins and other information
Office of Applied Studies- SAMSHA: 2007 National Survey on Drug Use & Health: Detailed Tables
Trends in Use of Various Drugs (high school statistics)
Prescription Opioid-related Deaths Increased 114 Percent from 2001 to 2005

Powerpoints:
2009 Nonmedical use of prescription drug with college supplement
2006 DEA Trend in Prescription Drug Abuse
2009 Death by Drug Intoxication
Opioid Receptors The Basis of Pain Relief and Addiction
Prevalence and Patterns of Nonmedical Use of OxyContin® and Other Pain Relievers

Florida Report: Medical Examiners Interim 2009 Report