Fight Against Prescription Drug Abuse Leads to Rise in Heroin Use
Fight against prescription drug abuse leads to rise in heroin use
WASHINGTON — From the beginning, the U.S. government’s decade-long crackdown on abuse of prescription drugs has run an unsettling risk: that arresting doctors and shuttering “pill mills” would inadvertently fuel a new epidemic of heroin use.
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REP. FIOLA: Drug abuse should not be fought alone
Substance abuse is not just a Fall River, New Bedford, Taunton or Boston problem. Substance abuse knows no property boundaries and is present throughout all our cities and suburbs. It is a problem for rich and poor alike, professional and blue …
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Letters: Drug abuse starts with the individual
The Times offers a very simplistic analysis of America’s drug dependence. As an emergency room physician, I see many chronic-pain patients who “run out” of their allotted opiates and then run to an emergency room. I am sometimes threatened with …
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