More on out-of-control prescription drug abuse:
It’s a culture with its own lingo: Bowls and baggies of random pills often are called “trail mix,” and on Internet chat sites, collecting pills from the family medicine chest is called “pharming.”Carol Falkowski, director of research communications for the Hazelden Foundation, says young abusers of prescription drugs also have begun using the Internet to share “recipes” for getting high. Some websites are so simplistic, she says, that they refer to pills by color, rather than their brand names, content or potency.
(via the Health business blog)
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