Colorado Doctors Cracking Down on Painkiller Abuse

Published February 11, 2013

Colorado doctors cracking down on painkiller abuse

Filed under: Drug Abuse Colorado

A report released this month by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration said Colorado has the second-highest rate of prescription-pill abuse in the nation, at 6 percent of the population. A National Governors Association …
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Hepatitis infections blamed on incompetent medical board

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Peters, who had a history of drug abuse and drug convictions, injected himself with pre-filled syringes of fentanyl — an opioid used in general anaesthesia — in theatre at Croydon Day Surgery, before administering the remaining drug to the patients …
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Torture Memo Author, Now a Federal Judge, Still Justifying Torture

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Prison staff conducted a search of Chappell and his prison cell, during which they notified Chappell that they believed that someone had introduced drugs through a hairpiece. The officials discovered three …. But American prisoners like Chappell …
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