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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Sen. Markey to discuss drug abuse crisis in Mass.
Markey is planning to speak on what he’s calling the drug abuse crisis at a noon press conference Friday at the Holyoke Health Center. Markey is calling for expanding the use of drug treatments to prevent opiate overdose deaths and for …
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Pakistan feeling wages of sin; Drug addiction, AIDS rife is South Asian nation
Drug addiction is taking its toll on the South Asian nation of Pakistan. A United Nations survey on drug abuse there found that some 6.7 million people or six percent of the population used drugs at least once last year. It's negatively impacting the …
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Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use
State and federal officials have pressed their campaign against prescription-drug abuse with urgency, trying to contain a scourge that kills more than 16,000 people each year. The crackdown has helped reduce the illegal use of some medications and …
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