Patients Are Becoming Collateral Damage in US War on Drugs
Patients are becoming collateral damage in US war on drugs
In October the U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed tightening restrictions on access to certain low-potency narcotic pain medicines in an effort to stem the rising tide of prescription-drug abuse in the United States. The new rules would require …
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Special Report: Area doctors seeing increase in heroin addicted babies
It's called neonatal abstinence syndrome, a condition that each year affects an estimated 13,500 babies with in the United States, according to a 2012 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association. While there are no outward signs that …
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