Sentences with phrase «abuse of prescription drugs»
The abuse of prescription drugs refers to the use of medications in a manner other than as prescribed by a healthcare professional, often for purposes such as getting high or self-medicating. Full definition
Indeed, it's both ironic and telling that the bill itself is named for an NYPD detective whose death — the city's medical examiner later ruled — was caused by abuse of prescription drugs, not Ground Zero poisons.
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To Alan McGonigal, an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the district's civil division, the rampant abuse of prescription drugs required a more holistic strategy, one that he had often used in prosecuting health care fraud: Find the gatekeepers.
The wider initiative, which Mr. Cuomo signed into law in 2012, aims to crack down on abuse of prescription drugs, particularly opioids.
Schools Are Targets for Prescription Thieves Reports of abuse of the prescription drug Ritalin are increasing.
When Canada's opioid problem involved only the abuse of prescription drugs, he says, policymakers squandered an opportunity to address it.
Teen misuse and abuse of prescription drugs is up.
The states are hoping to further prevent the stockpiling and abuse of prescription drugs by sharing information about patients.
Senate co-leader Jeff Klein (D - Bronx) said the heroin crisis was created when the drug became a low - cost alternative to the abuse of prescription drugs.
The Cuomo Administration, the State Senate and Assembly stand ready to approve a comprehensive package of legislation, bills that seek to control and, if possible, eliminate the abuse of prescription drugs.
At 12:30 p.m., Sen. George Amedore, along with Assemblyman John McDonald, Albany County Sheriff Craig Apple, and John Coppola, executive director of the New York Association of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers, will call on Cuomo to sign legislation to help prevent the abuse of prescription drugs, Hospitality House, 271 Central Ave., Albany.
Prescription Thugs (Unrated) Healthcare expose examining Big Pharma's role in the abuse of prescription drugs.
And although 71 percent of U.S. employers agree that abuse of prescription drugs is a disease that requires treatment, 65 percent consider it a justifiable reason for employee termination.
Abuse of prescription drugs has been a growing problem for a few decades now and life insurance underwriters have tried to balance their reaction of this abuse with alcohol abuse and illegal drug abuse.