Overcoming prescription drug addiction : a guide to coping and understanding / Rod Colvin.

Prescription drug addiction is now one of the nation's most serious drug problems. More Americans are abusing controlled prescription drugs more than cocaine, hallucinogens, inhalants, and heroin combined. With the exception of marijuana, prescription painkillers are the most widely abused drug...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Colvin, Rod, 1950-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Omaha, Neb. : Addicus Books, 2008.
Edition:3rd ed.
Series:Addicus Nonfiction Books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding addiction
  • Voices of recovery
  • Treatment for addiction
  • Insights on recovery from addiction medicine physicians
  • Support for families
  • Pain management and addiction
  • Seniors: at risk for drug misuse and addiction
  • Diverting drugs from doctors
  • Diverting drugs from pharmacies
  • Prescription drug monitoring programs
  • Law enforcement efforts.