Police to Collect Unwanted Medications
Police to collect unwanted medications
More than 20,000 Americans died from prescription drug overdoses in 2008, according to the Center for Disease Control. Most of those deaths, more than 14,800, were the result of opioid painkiller abuse, drugs like Vicodin, OxyContin, Percocet … Read more on Dodge City Daily Globe
FDA wants limits on prescribed painkillers
Both belong to a family of drugs known as opioids, which also includes heroin, codeine and methadone. Earlier this year the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that prescription painkiller overdose deaths among women increased about … Read more on kgw.com
FDA wants tighter restrictions on hydrocodone
They would be upgraded from Schedule III to Schedule II — joining more powerful opium-derived narcotics such as ocycodone (the active ingredient in Oxycontin), methadone and fentanyl, as well as Adderall and Ritalin, which are typically prescribed for … Read more on Marketplace.org