drug abuse

Roughly 700,000 Americans were taken to the hospital in 2007 after ingesting drugs -- both legal and illegal -- costing $1.4 billion per year in emergency department charges alone, according to a new study.

The Omnibus Appropriations Act of 2009 included funding for The National All Schedules Prescription Reporting (NASPER) law, which passed in 2005 and was intended to coordinate prescription drug monitoring in all 50 states. There will likely be many welcome -- and perhaps some unwelcome --...