Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Prescription drug abuse growing among Indians
Prescription drug abuse is growing in India and is a serious problem in South Asia, according to a UN report which said drugs enter the region’s illicit markets through various channels, being diverted from India’s pharma industry and smuggled from …
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Okla. DA to hold seminar on student drug abuse
CLAREMORE, Okla. (AP) – Residents who live in several northeast Oklahoma counties can attend a seminar next week focused on current trends in drug and alcohol abuse among students. The talk is scheduled for March 13 at Pryor High School.
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