Needing Drug Detox Is Not The Only Downside of Prescription Drug Addiction

Looking over the current news about the opioid painkiller OxyContin, we can see there’s not much change today from any other day in the last year or so. This is a drug that, despite its usefulness for helping serious chronic pain sufferers, has created a dark side of prescription drug addiction and crime, and led thousands of people to need drug detox, if not an undertaker. If anyone doubts that we have a problem in America with crime connected to narcotic prescription drug addiction, just take a look at today’s top headlines about OxyContin, as reported by…

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