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

Published March 10, 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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'High use' pain killer addicts get fix from doctors, dealers: study
The findings come as Zohydro, a high-potency prescription opioid from Zogenix Inc, is set to hit the U.S. market this month, despite objections from law enforcement officials, addiction experts, drug treatment providers and physicians. ANOTHER OPIOID.
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