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Savage: Affordable Care Act Offers Opportunity to Combat Pain and Drug Abuse
Filed under: drug abuse treatment
There is a growing national debate about two important life and death issues: the abuse of powerful pain medications and the treatment of chronic pain. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has classified prescription drug abuse as a deadly …
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Cameron Douglas Case Won't Crack Drug War
Filed under: drug abuse treatment
Two weeks after that trial, prison officials found that Douglas had used heroin and Suboxone, an "orange rock-like substance" used to treat heroin addiction. This time, Douglas compromised his credibility as a witness by lying to prosecutors about what …
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Editorial: Prescription-drug abuse lead-in to heroin
Filed under: drug abuse treatment
That follows a national trend: 178,000 people tried heroin for the first time in 2011, nearly double that of 2005. The law enforcement, medical and drug treatment communities are on notice that opiate abuse — from prescription painkillers to heroin …
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HB672 [Update] Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 2013 http://t.co/kHk38pOGIY – by eLobbyistUS (eLobbyist USCongress)