Think Progress: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton unveiled her plan to combat substance and alcohol abuse earlier this week, penning an 800-word op-ed that appeared in the New Hampshire Union Leader, a newspaper based in a region reeling from a […]
Inside Hillary Clinton’s Plan To Stop The Substance Abuse Epidemic
Doctors Play A Role In The Opioid Addiction Epidemic, Study Finds
The Huffington Post: A quarter of patients given a short-term prescription for painkillers transitioned to long-term use. We know how opioid addictions end: all too often, in death by overdose. About 16,000 Americans every year die of an overdose of […]
When Pain Kills
AARP: 46 Americans overdose on painkillers each day — and the numbers are rising for those over 55 After years of suffering from a degenerative back condition, Betty Tully worried that she was already taking too many pills. But when […]
In ‘hidden epidemic,’ senior citizens getting hooked on painkillers
Al Jazeera America: Once thought to be a problem of the young, opioid addiction is becoming increasingly common among elderly Americans In early July, 70-year-old Carol Billker traveled two hours from her home in Rockledge, Florida, to Hanley Center, an […]
PROP on President Obama’s handling of the prescription opioid and heroin crisis
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