Shumlin zeroes in on drug addiction with State of State

Published January 11, 2014

Shumlin zeroes in on drug addiction with State of State
Peter Shumlin focused virtually his entire State of the State address on one topic Wednesday: drug addiction. Citing a 770 percent increase since 2000 in demand for treatment for opiate addiction, Shumlin pledged to attack from both treatment and law … Read more on BurlingtonFreePress.com

Fighting addiction with a pill has potential for abuse, officials say
In 2000, Congress relaxed rules governing the prescribing of opioids to treat addictions to heroin or prescription painkillers, creating a key distinction between methadone, which has been used to treat heroin addiction since the 1960s, and buprenorphine. Read more on Zanesville Times Recorder

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