US groups support Rx drug abuse campaign
A US Senate campaign to designate August as National Medicine Abuse Month has received support from the Consumer Healthcare Products Association and the Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America (CADCA). The resolution, SR614, is sponsored by Senators Joseph Bien (Democrat, Delaware) and Charles Grassley (Republican, Iowa).
The CHPA, which represents non-prescription drugmakers and distributors, is hosting town hall meetings across the USA in partnership with the CADCA and local substance abuse treatment experts and other stakeholders. Some teenagers are reportedly consuming up to 50 times the recommended dose of certain cough medicines containing dextromethorphan in order to get a narcotic effect, the CHPA said.
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