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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)
Prescription Drug Slideshow- RxList
Be Medwise
Medline Plus: Prescription Drug Misuse Articles
Mixing Alcohol and Medicine
Other Drug Information:
NIDA Prescription Drug and Over-the-Counter Street Terms
Prescription Drugs Fast Facts
Other Fast Facts
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
Prescription Drug Abuse: What is being done to address this new drug epidemic?
Prescription and Over-the-Counter Medications
Ritalin and Adderall... Don’t confuse “feeling smart” with illegally misusing drugs and increasing medical risks.
Ritalin and Cocaine: the Connection and the Controversy
Ritalin Fast Facts
Center for Substance Abuse Research- Ritalin
Powerpoints:
See homepage for Adderall, Medical and Legal Aspects
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
Abuse and Dependence Liability of Benzodiazepine
Discrepancies between prescribed and defined daily doses: a matter of patients or drug classes?
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