From Addiction to Freedom

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A key challenge for the medical profession is to find the balance between ensuring timely and appropriate access to prescription medications for legitimate pain management and, at the same time, preventing patients from becoming addicted to the drugs …
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Charlie D. Adkins, 78, killed in Woodbridge home, police say

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Warman said in a telephone interview from her Florida home that Adkins struggled with prescription drug abuse over the years. He also had “a tragic family,” she said. Two of his sons committed suicide in 2000, according to Warman and online obituaries.
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Heroin addicts launch Charter challenge to prescription ban

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“The Prime Minister and I do not believe we are serving the interests of those who are addicted to drugs, or those who need our help, by giving them the very drugs they are addicted to,” she said at a news conference in Toronto last month. The …
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Is Suboxone a Wonder Drug that Helps Heroin Addicts Get Clean–Or Just …

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The number of pain-pill prescriptions hovered around 209.5 million in 2010; the National Institute on Drug Abuse estimates that 5 million people in the U.S. abuse painkillers. It's hardly surprising that a drug that can help people get off opiates has …
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