Actor Heath Ledger’s highly publicized recent death is focusing more attention on the skyrocketing overdose fatalities in the US propelled mainly by prescription drugs. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), prescription drugs have overtaken cocaine and…

Purdue Pharma, makers of the now infamous OxyContin, told the public in 2001 and for several subsequent years, that OxyContin had a lower risk of abuse and addiction than other prescription painkillers. The drug took the country by storm and,…

Have you ever been to a doctor and been given free samples of drugs? You might feel grateful: there’s something you don’t have to pay for. But those free samples are actually not just given to you out of the…

Many people who go to private drug detox centers to handle OxyContin addiction or dependency are businessmen: Lawyers, doctors, accountants, engineers, contractors, stock brokers, and so on - careers that might end if someone knew about the drug problem, or…

At present it is sheer inquisitiveness that drives you to develop an addiction to drugs over time. Drug addiction means habitual use of psychoactive drugs to such a point at which the consumer of drugs has no other way out…