Editorial: Getting at root of all drug problems

Editorial: Getting at root of all drug problems
In New England, the governors of Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine addressed drug abuse in their state-of-the-state speeches. Heroin, remarkably, is the … CDC researchers recently discovered a strange trend: Prescription drug misuse had leveled off …
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Maker of OxyContin developing tamper-resistant hydrocodone drug
About 15,000 Americans die each year from prescription drug overdoses, the agency estimates, and millions more misuse the drugs for nonmedical purposes. The FDA came under fire last October after its decision to … Last fall, more than two dozen state …
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Proposal would limit Medicare coverage for some drug testing
… which are used to check the accuracy of drug screenings. In a Tuesday letter to Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner, Bondi cited Florida's "protracted battle against prescription and illicit drug use," and said …
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