Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use

Published March 7, 2014

Prescription-drug battle fuels rise in heroin use
He co-authored a 2012 study, cited in the New England Journal of Medicine, that found that a reformulation of OxyContin to make it harder to abuse caused heroin use to nearly double. Although policymakers “did the best they could at the time” in …
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