Experts: Officials Missed Signs of Prescription Drug Crackdown's Effect on …

Published March 9, 2014

Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown's effect on …
From the beginning, the U.S. government's decade-long crackdown on prescription drug abuse has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use. State and federal officials …
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Most prescription drug abusers get pills from friends, not drug dealers: CDC
Most people who abuse addictive prescription painkillers get them for free from friends or relatives, while drug dealers are a relatively uncommon source for those at highest risk for deadly overdoses, a government study found. People who abuse the …
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