What is Prescription-Drug-Abuse
A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. The term...
A prescription drug (or POM Prescription Only Medicine, in UK) is a licensed medicine that is regulated by legislation to require a prescription before it can be obtained. The term...


The Las Vegas Coroner just released that Danny Gans, the well known Las Vegas Entertainer, had toxic levels of hydromorphone (Dilaudid) in his ... Read More »
I can't tell you how many times I am asked this question by teenage patients, older patients, their families, my friends and colleagues. ... Read More »
As I just finished reading a newly published article about unintentional child poisonings in this month's journal Pediatrics, I realize I ... Read More »
I am at the midpoint of my month as the hospitalist at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. I have worked as a physician through the Aids ... Read More »
With mental health benefits being slashed or all together disappearing, consumers & insurance companies are looking for ways to get in and out ... Read More »
Once you have received the names and telephone numbers of a couple of therapists (see my Blog titled How to Find a Good Therapist) then ... Read More »
This is the fourth and I think the final part to the IALAC series. I have one final thought that I want to share. I realized it's not only ... Read More »
I wasn't planning on a part three to the "I am Lovable and Capable (IALAC)" series but so many of your comments and messages about ... Read More »
I am lovable and capable: Isn't that what it's all about? If we all felt lovable and capable there would be significantly less depression, anxiety ... Read More »
