The Epidemic Began With an Effort to Reduce Pain; for Donna Read, That Effort …
The epidemic began with an effort to reduce pain; For Donna Read, that effort …
I wanted to sleep. It made me depressed.” The decision to prescribe oxycodone was hardly an unusual choice in 2007. That year, some 232,000 oxycodone scripts were filled in Rhode Island, making oxycodone the second most frequently prescribed controlled …
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Naloxone: A lifesaver that is quickly gaining appeal
Registered Nurse Babette Richter holds up a container of the heroin overdose reversal drug naloxone during a South Jersey AIDS Alliance training for laypeople – addicts, family members, and friends – in Camden in February. Naloxone, also known by …
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