Pain Pills Can Be Prescriptions for Addiction, Death
Pain pills can be prescriptions for addiction, death
It ends with addiction. Misuse of prescription painkillers is on the rise, and experts say increasingly, it's killing us. In 2012, 400 people in Macomb County, Mich., alone died from prescription narcotic overdose, said Dr. Joseph Naughton, director of …
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Homemade heroin first developed in Russia may have come to the United States
An intravenous, highly addictive drug from Russia — one that can destroy tissue and blood vessels, turning skin greenish and scaly — may be showing up in the United States. Doctors in Arizona last month treated two patients whose condition was …
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