1) Is Managed Cared Creating Opiate Addicts? Among the unintended consequences of Obamacare is a new epidemic of opium addiction. Read more at this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-duncan/painkiller-addiction_b_2096906.html
2) The Bitter Pill There were more than 40,000 accidental overdose deaths last year.Hence the doctor's dilemma. When a physician raises his pen to prescribe one of this class of opiates. he risks accidently hooking a patient, Read more at this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-duncan/prescriptions-abuse_b_1652231.html
3) The New Drug Crises. The CDC reports that the relatively recent epidemic of opium-addiction is now America's fastest growing drug problem. The source of most of these opiates is not the foreign cartels, traffickers and drug dealers depicted in Hollywood movies; it is pharmacies fulfilling prescriptions written by often well-meaning doctors for Vicodin, Oxycontin, Oxycodone, and other opoid pain relievers. Read More at this link:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/susan-duncan/prescription-drug-addiction_b_1621484.html