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The Price of Addiction: Portland Docs Prescribing Opioids More Cautiously (Series)

The price of addiction: Portland docs prescribing opioids more cautiously (Series)
“We need to get them somewhere where they can get detox. It involves resources that are scarce.” Editors note: The price of addiction is an ongoing series looking at how prescription painkiller and heroin addiction is affecting Portland. Later this …
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The price of addiction: Prescription painkillers, heroin plague Portland (Series)
More than half of the people admitted into Central City Concern's detox program are opioid users, said Lynn Smith-Stott, who oversees all recovery programs for Central City Concern. A few prescription opioid stats: In 2012, there were 84 arrests in …
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