Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin

Prescription Painkillers Seen as a Gateway to Heroin
The actor, who quit heroin more than 20 years ago, reportedly struggled to break a prescription painkiller habit last year. Experts in addiction say that the use of medications like Vicodin, OxyContin and oxycodone — all opiates like heroin — has …
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Heroin use climbs in Maine as cheaper alternative to prescription drugs
That's what has happened in Maine and across the country as abuse of prescription painkillers has led to opiate addiction, driving some users to heroin as a less expensive alternative. As Morris said, the commonly prescribed painkiller OxyContin costs …
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Philip Seymour Hoffman's death brings attention to drug addiction
Peter Shumlin, whose State of the State address in January focused only on drug addiction, said treatment for all opiate addiction had increased 770 percent since 2000 in Vermont. “What started as an OxyContin and prescription drug addiction problem in …
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Powerful painkiller Zohydro criticized by Pennsylvania AG
A new drug touted as 10 times more potent than the prescription painkillers now available will be on the market in March and could be deadlier than the heroin and opiates responsible for dozens of overdose deaths this year, according to the state …
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