Drug Abuse: Medicare Prescription Drug Abuse a Problem: GAO
Drug Abuse: Medicare prescription drug abuse a problem: GAO
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Prescription drug abuse by elderly and disabled beneficiaries of Medicare cost the U.S. program nearly $ 150 million in 2008, highlighting an area where the government can seek to save health costs.
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Drug Abuse: Report Warns of Prescription Drug Abuse by Medicare Beneficiaries
Investigators from the Government Accountability Office said Medicare officials had been slow to recognize and act on the evidence of abuse, which is to be presented at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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Drug Abuse: Drug users abuse of Medicare costs taxpayers
WASHINGTON — Medicare’s popular prescription program has an unsavory underside. It’s an easy target for drug abusers seeking to feed their own addictions or sell painkillers for profit, congressional investigators said in a report released Tuesday. The Government Accountability Office found that about 170,000 Medicare recipients each received prescriptions from …
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Drug Abuse: Report on Medicare cites prescription drug abuse
Investigators from the Government Accountability Office said Medicare officials had been slow to recognize and act on the evidence of abuse, which is to be presented at a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
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Drug Abuse: Magellan Health Services of Arizona Wins SAMHSA's 2011 Science and Service …
"With these disturbing facts in mind, Magellan and its service provider partners collaborated to find ways of increasing access to community-based substance abuse treatment for youth in the central Arizona behavioral health system who were involved …
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Drug Abuse: Help for prescription drug abusers too slow — group
By GORDON DELANEY Valley Bureau KENTVILLE — The province still hasn't taken enough action on drug addictions says the group fighting prescription drug abuse in the Annapolis Valley. "There are still people on waiting lists to get into detox and people …
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