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Drug Detox Is The Solution For Vicodin Addiction Even If It Isn’t "Vicodin"

By Rod Mactaggart · 16 years ago

A drug detox program may be the only safe answer for a Vicodin addiction, but the addictive prescription painkiller in your medicine cabinet may have another name - here’s what to look for. Abbott Laboratories, ...

Drug Detox Q&A: Should Prescription Drug Side Effects Get Equal Time?

By Rod Mactaggart · 16 years ago

In the 10 years since prescription drug advertising began on television, Big Pharma has spent billions of dollars saturating the airwaves with drug commercials. Actors in idealistic settings wax ecstatic about their new drug-created lives, ...

Will Alcohol Rehab Get A Boost from New Anti-Craving Drugs?

By Rod Mactaggart · 16 years ago

Treatment for alcoholism by family doctors may be the coming thing as a result of new drugs that claim to reduce the craving for alcohol. But although the new drugs show promise in helping some ...

Drug Rehab vs. Drug Crime: The Choice Is Obvious, But It Isn’t Easy

By Rod Mactaggart · 16 years ago

Teenagers busted for possession, adults busted for trafficking, cops busted for stealing drugs from evidence lockers - every day of the week there are dozens of news stories about drug-related crime. A few of the ...

Drug Rehab Chronicles – Beware of Prescription Drug Combinations

By Rod Mactaggart · 17 years ago

After years of drug abuse, Vicki Lynn Marshall finally met her end with a deadly combination of prescription and over-the-counter drugs. The jury’s still out on whether the cause of death was accidental or otherwise, ...

Drug Rehab Could Have Saved Beloved South African Singer

By Rod Mctaggart · 17 years ago

Brenda Fassie, the legendary South African pop singer who sold millions of records across Africa and around the world, died in a Johannesburg hospital on May 9, 2004 after spending 13 days in a coma. ...

Drug Detox Q & A: Can Opioid Pain Therapy Create Drug Addicts?

By Rod Mactaggart · 17 years ago

Risk of drug addiction is higher with opioid painkillers than with other drugs We frequently hear or read about people who have become addicted to painkillers after being prescribed them by their doctor for chronic ...