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
As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates … Control and Prevention study challenges the belief that the abuse epidemic is caused largely by users getting drugs from friends and …
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Sen. Markey to discuss drug abuse crisis in Mass.
HOLYOKE, Mass. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Edward Markey is planning to join Congressman Richard Neal and Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse to discuss heroin and prescription drug abuse in western Massachusetts. Markey is planning to speak on what he’s calling …
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