News About Prescription Pills and Heroin
June 2015
Smartphone App to Measure Pain Might Impact Opioid Use
A new smartphone app being tested by pain specialists at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston has the potential to help reduce opioid use in chronic pain sufferers
Misuse of ADHD-Type Drugs Starts Long Before College
Young Americans start misusing prescription stimulant medications such as Ritalin and Adderall at an earlier age than previously believed
May 2015
How Heroin Made Its Way From Rural Mexico To Small-Town America
On how a pill problem becomes a heroin problem
Addiction treatment hard to find, even as overdose deaths soar
With nearly 44,000 deaths a year, more Americans today die from drug overdoses than from car accidents or any other type of injury.
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