...  of statin drugs Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment The new approach, presented Tuesday by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Assn., represents a stark shift from the way doctors have prescribed the popular drugs for most of the last decade. Physicians who have focused on reducing … Read more on Los Angeles Times  Prescription medicine overdose epidemic takes a deadly turn across US Filed under: prescription drug abuse treatment Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention note that drug poisoning has increased by more than 300 percent over the last three decades, mainly from unintentional overdoses of narcotics, hallucinogens and other drugs. According to … Read more on Defiance Crescent News (subscription) Tags: centers for disease control and prevention, american heart association, los angeles, los angeles times, drug abuse treatment, prescription drug ...