Spike in Heroin Use Can Be Traced to Prescription Pads
Spike In Heroin Use Can Be Traced To Prescription Pads
Kolodny says the statistics are stark. Areas with the highest rates of opioid or heroin addiction are often wealthier areas, where people have more access to medical care. With medical care comes access to doctors — doctors who could write prescriptions.
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Carol Costa: Facing Down the Opioid Abuse Monster
This represents a near tripling of drug deaths since 2009, which are huge statistics for our small state. This should shock us. This should be a wake up call. Yet I do not see or feel the fervor. This problem will cost us in money and lives and it will …
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