Prescription drugs:abuse education and diversion control efforts

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Bibliographic Details
Group Author: Penny Wallace O.; Phillips John J.
Published: Nova Science Publishers,
Publisher Address: New York
Publication Dates: c2012.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Substance abuse assessment, interventions and treatment
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Carrier Form: viii, 139 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9781620812112
1620812118
Index Number: R969
CLC: R969.3
Call Number: R969.3/P933
Contents: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Prescription pain reliever abuse: agencies have begun coordinating education efforts, but need to assess effectiveness / United States Government Accountability Office -- Prescription drug control: DEA has enhanced efforts to combine diversion, but could better assess and report program results / United States Government Accountability Office -- Statement of Michele M. Leonhart, Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration. Hearing on "Responding to the prescription drug epidemic: strategies for reducing abuse, misuse, diversion, and fraud -- Statement of John L. Eadie, MPA, Director, Prescription Monitoring Program Center of Excellence, Brandeis University. Hearing on "Enhancing prescription monitoring programs ability to impede the prescription drug abuse epidemic."