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Prescription Drug Abuse: Med schools offering residencies for addiction
There is an age-old debate over alcoholism: Is the problem in the sufferer’s head — something that can be overcome through willpower, spirituality or talk therapy, perhaps — or is it a physical disease, one that needs continuing medical treatment in much the same way as, say, diabetes or epilepsy? Increasingly, the medical establishment is putting its weight behind the latter diagnosis.
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Prescription Drug Abuse: O.C. parents sue doctor after sons overdose on prescription drugs
Riley Russo and Ryan Winter, both 20, died after abusing the powerful narcotic Opana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax. The physician, Lisa Tseng, has now been linked to 10 overdose deaths. The parents of two young Orange County men who died of overdoses filed lawsuits Friday alleging that a Rowland Heights physician acted like a drug dealer in selling prescriptions to their sons.
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