Prescriptions, Medicaid, Addicts, Addiction

Data produced from the Center for Disease Control from July 2013 reported that residents of rural areas rank highest among those who are at risk. It stated that Medicaid patients are also at a great risk because they are "being prescribed painkillers at twice the rate of non-Medicaid patients." . . . Most people limit drug abuse to illegal substances like cocaine and heroin, but access to prescription drugs is much greater. I have witnessed the legal ramifications of drug abuse. People are not receiving the needed treatment through periods of incarceration . . . (source infra)

Attorney Michael Gopin Comments on DEA Official's Declaration of a ...

DigitalJournal.com

 . . . DEA official Robert Hill contends that law enforcement currently takes the wrong approach. Hill contends that officers attempt to solve the problem by making rampant arrests until it disappears. The sell-and-trade and abuse of prescription medication cannot be solved through arrests, because this does not strike at the heart of the problem: addiction . . .

A tragic legacy of Afghanistan's war

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Not only does drug production hold back Afghanistan's development and threaten its security. Drug addiction is harming Afghanistan's health and welfare."...

Addiction treatment revamped under health care law, expert says

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Dr McLellan spoke on the future of drug and alcohol treatment under the new health care ... The medical community's understanding of addiction has changed ...

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