Philip Seymour Hoffman's Death Points to Broader Opioid Drug Epidemic

Published February 16, 2014

Philip Seymour Hoffman's death points to broader opioid drug epidemic
Most people who abuse pills don't have legal prescriptions for them. They get them from family and friends, and sometimes from drug dealers. Young people may view them as safer than street drugs such as heroin because they are manufactured as medicine …
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South Florida Is Seeing An 'Epidemic' Of Heroin Abuse
MIAMI (Reuters) – A high-profile law enforcement crackdown on prescription painkiller abuse in Florida has addicts turning increasingly to heroin, resulting in the highest number of overdose deaths and hospitalizations in recent years, a report on drug …
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Breaking the Bond of Heroin and Painkillers
Keith Humphreys, a psychiatry professor and addiction expert at Stanford University, suggests that successful strategies being adopted piecemeal across the country should become universal: prescription monitoring programs that catch drug-addicted …
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