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Attacking prescription abuse from all angles
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, one-third of Americans suffer persistent pain that can last from weeks to years. But with physicians increasingly being held liable when patients
Regulation, database the right solutions for prescription abuse?
Florida's sweeping "pill mill bill" passed in July has been successful in thwarting physicians in the state from writing excessive prescriptions for dangerously addictive painkillers. In particular,
New 'pill mill bill' cracks down on overprescribing painkillers
The U.S. death toll from overdose deaths from painkillers has exploded from less than 4,000 in 2000 to more than 11,000 in 2007, according to the most recent statistics from the federal Centers for
