National Drug Control Policy and Prescription Drug Abuse: Facts and Fallacies

National drug control policy and prescription drug abuse: facts and fallacies.

In a recent press release Joseph A. Califano, Jr., Chairman and President of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University called for a major shift in American attitudes about substance abuse and addiction and a top to bottom overhaul in the nation's healthcare, criminal justice, social service, and eduction systems to curtail the rise in illegal drug use and other...

New national strategy on prescription drug abuse.

Analysis of Implement-Criminal Policy Discourses to Control Drug Abuse

Objective: In this study, implement-criminal policy discourses to control drug abuse were analyzed. Method: The present research was descriptive-analytical and the data were collected in the form of a library research from books, dissertations and articles. Results: This study showed that due to the transfer of enforcement to various executive agents, the implement-criminal policy governing dru...

PrescriPtion Drug Abuse: WhAt

The misuse and abuse of controlled substances, especially those containing opiates, by the general public and in patients suffering with chronic pain is a problem attracting nationwide attention. This fact is reinforced by multiple congressional committees with jurisdiction over the epidemic, numerous hearings conducted by various committees, and the focus the administration. The United States ...

Prescription drug abuse: a national survey of primary care physicians.

Sex and racial disparities in cardiovascular risk continue to exist, and the risk factors fueling these disparities will require redress. The enormous progress in reducing cardiovascular diseasemortality realized since the 1960s representpublic health and health care improvement successes, yet more progress in reducing the remaining colossal burdenof cardiovascular disease in the United States ...