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Feds’ Pill Crackdown Drives Pain Patients to Heroin

UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES

The war on prescription-drug abuse has created ‘opioid refugees’ who can’t get prescriptions for legal painkillers filled and turn to illegal ones instead.

Christopher Moraff
Christopher Moraff
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Christopher Moraff

Christopher Moraff

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