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Experts from HAAD to give latest updates on safety of OTC products at Abu Dhabi Medical Congress

Distributors and major drug chain retailers get their first hands-on presentation of the Teensavers Home Drug Test Kit, the latest and most complete total solution for the family drug problem.

Reel recovery film festival ~ celebrates the gifts of recoevry while demystifying anonymous stigma

This new book discusses whether dealing with errors is a learned skill and looks at how much of the problem is caused by the failure to teach, learn, and understand medical error, including the often neglected importance of critical thinking skills.

There was a time when epilepsy and seizures were considered untreatable as there was no proper medication available for these disorders.

New iPhone App delivers Overdose Symptoms and Drug Side Effect info in Plain English for over 1600 prescription drugs plus the latest Drug Safety Alerts and Adverse Event Reports and allows you to contact the FDA directly to report any new reactions.

Like many other drugs, propofol can make you high but also has important therapeutic indications and is an indispensable medication. Tighter control as well as education is critically important to ensure appropriate and safe use of this drug.

The published reports of Mr. Jackson's medications illustrate an important issue- any two drugs may be safe in combination but the cumulative effect of many drugs can be difficult to detect and very dangerous.

We owe it to ourselves, those afflicted, those lost and their families to demand a commitment to NO LONGER ACCEPT IGNORANCE, STIGMA, APATHY and a LACK OF OVERALL RESOURCES as acceptable excuses for INACTION.

Information about drug use is now just a click away with the recently launched DopeStats.com. The new site is an online statistical database documenting drug use in more than 3,000 counties in the United States.

Pediatrician Gwenn O'Keefe offers tips on protecting kids from taking too much.

As Prescription Drug Deaths Increase – DEA Reduces Restrictions on Schedule II Drugs

“Methadone related deaths continue their upward trend in many areas across the Country. Currently Methadone is the #2 Killer Drug in the United States”, say HARMD, Inc. (Helping America Reduce Methadone Deaths).