Amid Heroin Epidemic, Fund Budget
Amid heroin epidemic, fund budget
Moreover, the state also is afflicted with an epidemic of prescription drug addiction. Overdose deaths involving prescription drugs have increased by 89 percent statewide since 1999, Ms. Kane testified, and hospital admissions for opioid and synthetic …
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Killing pain
But the use of such drugs has exploded in the past 15 years. Everyone, especially … In 2011, sweeping state legislation that regulated pain clinics helped close most of Ohio's profiteering pill mills, shifting the problem to legitimate doctors. “We …
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