Local doctor: Physicians need to curb prescriptions

Published September 24, 2010

Local doctor: Physicians need to curb prescriptions
LANCASTER –Nowadays, doctors are seeing pushier patients. They push their doctors for pain medication. Then, when the pills run out, they push for a little more.
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Looking for secrets to drug addiction in our blood
( DOE/Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ) A new two-year, $ 850,000 study with the US Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the Air Force’s 59th Medical Wing hopes to find a better indicator of current or past use of illicit drugs. The US Department of Defense-funded study will map out drug breakdown products, proteins and other compounds made in response to the …
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