Eye to Eye With Katie Couric: Rx Drug Abuse (CBS News)

Published November 23, 2013

Eye To Eye With Katie Couric: Rx Drug Abuse (CBS News) — Only On The Web”: In the war on drugs the abuse of prescription medication among teens is up. Steve Pasierb of Partnership for a Drug-Free America has more o…

This drug could make a huge dent in heroin addiction. So why isn't it used more?
In 2010, more than 19,000 Americans died from opiate overdose. By comparison, about 11,000 Americans died from gun homicide. Over the past 35 years, about 200,000 injection-drug users have died of HIV/AIDS. Substitution therapies — first methadone, …
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Henry Radel, tell other Republicans that all addicts deserve help
The proposed legislation and laws vary state to state, but the implication and consequences of all of them are the same: those who use illegal drugs are not worth spending money on. If you smoke crack, shoot heroin, snort coke, you are just weak, lazy …
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