The Dark Side of America's Rush Into Prescription Drugs Has Never Been More …
The Dark Side Of America's Rush Into Prescription Drugs Has Never Been More …
A 2001 article in The New York Times Magazine called new standards for pain treatment "a critical watershed." … Between 1997 and 2007, per capita retail purchases of methadone, hydrocodone, and oxycodone increased 13 times, four times, and nine times …
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Looking back at 80 years of coverage
New York University announces plans for a new four-and-a-half-story law center on Washington Square South. Twelve thousand sign a … 1971: A floating methadone clinic at the Christopher St. Pier provokes the community's ire. 1973: Koch runs for mayor.
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Painkiller prescriptions skyrocket, endangering veterans
The Veterans Affairs hospital in Roseburg, Ore. dispenses the nation's fifth-highest rate of prescriptions for morphine, methadone, hydrocodone and oxyocodone: 139 per 100 patients. The Rocky Mountain West has seen a 293 percent increase in VA opiate …
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