An estimated hundreds of millions prescribed medication doses are diverted to the street each year. Triplicate-prescription programs were developed as an effort to decrease the diversion of prescription medications to illicit markets at a reduced cost...

A medical prescription (℞) is an order (often in written form) by a qualified health care professional to a pharmacist or other therapist for a treatment to be provided to their patient. A prescription is a legal document which not only instructs in...

Q I am a family counselor working in New York City. One of my teenaged clients has a rare mitochondrial disorder that has resulted in hearing and vision impairments, fine and gross motor difficulties, diabetes, and Fanconi syndrome (a kidney disorder leading to...

ABSTRACT Background: Population-based studies of pharmaceutical use in children provide information on disease prevalence, physician practice and adherence to treatment. We undertook an evaluation of regional differences in prescription drug use by Manitoba children. Methods: Using Manitoba's population-based prescription data for 1998/99,...

Drug shipments from illegal online pharmacies were once so frequent in Appalachia that delivery companies had to add trucks to their routes.Police have cracked down on such deliveries, but are still confronted by a booming global network of so-called rogue pharmacies operating online.For people addicted...