Fighting Prescription Drug Abuse, While Treating Pain, Is a Health Care Crisis – Oregonian

Published July 2, 2012

Fighting prescription drug abuse, while treating pain, is a health care crisis – Oregonian
Filed under: Drug Abuse and Addiction
The costs to individuals and society are devastating: In 2009, for the first time, drug … addiction, to explain why giving further opiates is not safe, and then to provide resources for help with both pain and, if appropriate, substance abuse.
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Can Big Pharma’s Denial of Drug Addiction Weather a Senate Investigation? – Salem-News.Com
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“In truth, the prevalence of drug abuse and addiction in patients treated with opioids for chronic pain has not been established because of the lack of prospective studies. About 1% of the general U.S. population demonstrates addiction to opioids.
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