Prescription Drug Abuse Quotes

For more than a decade, Novartis spent hundreds of millions of dollars on so-called speaker programs, including speaking fees, exorbitant meals, and top-shelf alcohol that were nothing more than bribes to get doctors across the country to prescribe Novartis's drugs.

My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.

Last year as many Marylanders died of drug overdoses as died of homicides and traffic deaths combined.

Ritalin abuse is a big issue in the US.

I think we all agreed to take a bunch of Xanax at some point.

Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.

It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills.

the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

With the skyrocketing costs of prescription drugs, American taxpayers shouldn't be footing the bill for medicine going to waste.

Rogue internet pharmacies continue to pose a serious threat to the health and safety of Americans. Simply put, a few unethical physicians and pharmacists have become drug suppliers to a nation.

I have always been very interested in the issue of drugs, because as much as illegal drugs are prosecuted, if you think of it as a health issue, the real killer are prescription drugs, like over prescribing of opioids.