Topics About 'Drug Abuse'.

In 2010, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency launched “National Prescription Drug Take Back Day” to remove unwanted, expired or unused prescription drugs from homes. The DEA has announced on the next Take Back Day, scheduled on October 26, 2019, vaping...

In addition to publicly calling out 64 physicians for overprescribing dangerous drugs, California's Death Certificate Project has now threatened the licenses of four nurse practitioners (NPs) for negligence after an investigation linked their prescri...

On June 4, 2019, a former nurse at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center in Buffalo, New York was charged with stealing pain medication from cancer patients. Kelsey Mulvey, of Grand Island, was charged with illegally obtaining controlled substance...

Once or twice the death was Mother Nature's way of reminding us who was boss. The other times it was narcotic diversion by a coworker; after all, how many professions have access to narcotics while working? Nurses, Docs, Law Enforcement and similar r...

Jacob, a 23-year-old, patiently lays on the bed in a semi-private room on the medical-surgical floor of an urban county-run hospital. The doctors, nurses and other staff have seen him many times previously because he is one of those 'frequent flyers'...

As primary care providers, it is our duty to ensure that the medications we are prescribing to our patients do not do more harm than good. Any goal of pharmaceutical therapy is to aid our patients during their time of medical need. As with anything i...