Letters: Drug Abuse Starts With the Individual

Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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Experts: Officials missed signs of prescription drug crackdown’s effect on heroin use
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 …
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Progress Report For Prescription Drug Abuse & Newborns
Tallahassee, FL – "It's my intent to highlight the progress that we've made and discuss the current status of preventing drug abuse and our goal of treating fewer drug exposed newborns," said Pam Bondi, Florida Attorney General. The Florida Office of …
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