MyNDTALK - Not As Prescribed - Dr. Harry Harotunian
You may think, Dad is just enjoying cocktails and retirement, or Mom still has pain and needs her pills. Maybe so, but consider that an estimated 17 percent of people age sixty and older struggle with misuse of alcohol and prescription drugs alone. Older adults are now hospitalized as often for alcohol-related problems as they are for heart attacks. Dr. Harotunian provides you with the information needed to understand the dynamics of addiction in older adults.