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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
Published
Apr. 15 2016
1:00AM EDT
Christopher Moraff
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cmoraff@temple.edu
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