Prescription Drug Abuse: Healthbeat Brooklyn – Prescription Drug Abuse: Addiction to prescription drugs is on the rise. Andrew Kolodny, MD, Chair of Psychiatry at Maimonides, tells host Monica Sweeney, MD, why OxyContin and the like are now common gateway drugs, why they’re so dangerous, and why doctors are often so poor at spotting the problem. From Brooklyn Independent Television's Healthbeat Brooklyn Episode 37. Original Airdate: 1/5/2010 www.bricartsmedia.org

 

OxyContin is an effective, but highly addictive, pain killer. (QMI AGENCY PHOTO)

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To substance abuse experts, however, the sudden appearance of a methadone clinic was not a case of build it and they will come, but a case of build because it is needed. Perhaps there should be a placard outside that reads, “Brought to you by the …
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Mother charged with abuse over drug–addicted baby

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PARK CITY — An arrest warrant has been issued for a woman with a history of drug addiction after police say she gave birth to a drug-addicted baby. Shea Renee Sheeran, 27, was charged in Summit County's 3rd District Court on Friday with child abuse …
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DR. JOSEPH SHRAND: Drug addiction is not a moral failing

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Seeing addiction as a moral failing, these folks become outraged that our government spends their tax dollars on treating people who knew from the start they were using an addictive drug, in essence telling them they were on their own and we should not …
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