The Nes Face Of Drug Addiction

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The new face of drug addiction

By: CNN Congressional Producer Rachel Streitfeld

Washington (CNN) - The face of drug addiction has changed, and the government is working to adapt.

The 21st-century drug addict is more likely to get a fix from a medicine cabinet than from a needle. More than 5 million Americans misused prescription painkillers in a one-month period in 2009, according to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health from that year...........

 

""Daily, 50 people in our nation die from unintentional prescription opioid overdoses and, daily, 20 times that number are admitted to hospital emergency departments for opioid overdoses," said John Eadie, director of the Prescription Monitoring Program Center of Excellence at Brandeis University......".

 

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/24/the-new-face-of-drug-addiction/?iref=obinsite