Opiate Addiction Stories: FDA Panel Recommends More Restrictions on Vicodin and Other Hydrocodone

FDA Panel Recommends More Restrictions on Vicodin and Other Hydrocodone
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Those fighting to prevent prescription drug abuse and the fatal consequences that result from opioid abuse sit on one side of this issue. ….. They should instead have a panel of chronic pain patients so that they can get the real story on pain meds …
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Opium Novel Wins 000 Prize, Author Thayil Quits Drugs
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Heroin Switch. He smoked opium for four years until the city started closing down the dens, forcing users to switch to heroin, “a quick and brutal and ugly world.” To support his addiction, Thayil worked as a journalist, yet never missed a deadline, he …
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Fentanyl abuse a problem in Ottawa
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But in the last five years drug users discovered the prescription narcotic could be chewed, smoked, injected or otherwise consumed all at once. In a special report, CBC Ottawa reporter Steve Fischer follows the story from the perspective of former …
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