A Warm Bed, Out of the Cold

A warm bed, out of the cold
Filed under: painkiller addiction

Then Lindsay broke her back in a snowmobile accident. She was prescribed OxyContin, a brand-name pain killer, and she became addicted. Her boyfriend burned her house when she refused to hand over her pills and money. Her six-year-old son died in the …
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Doctors, patients caught in middle of narcotics 'epidemic'
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As the number of prescriptions for narcotic painkillers has increased over the last several years, doctors “are in the sight of the gun,” said Dr. Farris Keeling, a family practice physician at Essentia Health who specializes in treating chronic pain …
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