Drug Abuse: Medicare Prescription Drug Abuse a Problem: GAO – Reuters India

Drug Abuse: Medicare prescription drug abuse a problem: GAO – Reuters India
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. According to a …
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Drug Abuse: Cleaners to report drug abuse in London Olympic Village – Thaindian.com
London, Oct 4 (IANS) Domestic cleaners in the 2012 Olympic village in London will be told to report about drug abuse by the athletes. The move is part of ‘intelligence-based’ strategy to unmask dope offenders. Jonathan Harris, the Games’ anti-doping …
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Drug Abuse: Drug abuse policies shared [Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.] – Insurance News Net
Oct. 06–About 15 business and industry leaders framed substance abuse as it relates to the workplace and the community at large during a forum Wednesday convened by the Alliance for a Drug-Free Owensboro-Daviess County. “The key to substance abuse has got …
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Drug Abuse: Medicare Reform Needed to Prevent Drug Abuse – FOX News
If we’re going to fix the health care system in America, we have to reform Medicare and Medicaid. Listen, if it were my choice, Medicare would be around for the next 100 years, but this simply isn’t feasible unless we begin to take a closer look …
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Drug Abuse: Danbury workshop focuses on 'epidemic' of prescription drug overdoses
"Three days after Hurricane Irene, we would have lost a young man to a prescription drug overdose if a police officer hadn't intervened," Schmotter said at the start of a workshop Thursday night on prescription drug abuse that focused on opioids like
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Drug Abuse: How should Bangor keep mentally ill, addicts out of jail?
By Meg Haskell, BDN Staff BANGOR, Maine — People suffering from mental illness and substance abuse who serve jail time for criminal activities too often are released into society without the support they need to keep themselves out of trouble,
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Drug Abuse: Governor for mass awareness campaign against Drug Abuse
Srinagar, Oct 7: Governor NN Vohra Friday emphasized the “need for adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to effectively address the serious problem of drug abuse”. He was talking to a delegation of the Civil Society Forum (CSF), Srinagar,
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