Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use

Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
Police and addiction treatment professionals … a former U.S. attorney in Alexandria, Va. and deputy attorney general. “At the same time, many of us involved in drug policy from the 1980s onward saw heroin on the decline for a long period.”
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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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Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The article identifies doctors as the primary source of narcotic painkillers for chronic abusers and says a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study challenges the belief that the abuse epidemic is caused largely by users getting drugs from …
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Survey: Parents grossly underestimate kids' drug use
“As youth drug and alcohol abuse continues to grow, many parents say they are uninformed – and largely unconcerned – about the threat to their children,” the foundation says about new research. Hazelden-Betty Ford is a newly merged partnership of two …
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Reporter's Notebook: Governor hopeful Avellone focusing on drug–abuse crisis
Joe Avellone, a former healthcare executive and one of the five Democrats running for governor, toured the Dimock Community Health Center in Roxbury on Wednesday and highlighted his ideas on how to slow the state's mounting substance abuse crisis.
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