Doctors ignore root cause: addiction

Doctors ignore root cause: addiction

Filed under: drug abuse

As dissimilar as they seem, many of these patients are also suffering from another illness – alcohol or drug abuse – that is at the root of the more obvious ailments that keep them cycling through the medical system. Even so, their addiction is rarely …
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Gateway drugs linked to prescription drug abuse

Filed under: drug abuse

Their paper, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, was the first to find that a link between these “gateway drugs” and prescription painkillers. They found that all three drugs are associated with higher levels of prescription drug abuse in …
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