Is VA Causing Veterans to Overdose on Opiates?
Is VA Causing Veterans to Overdose on Opiates?
Instead of helping treat veterans' pain, the VA has loaded up sufferers with highly-addictive drugs, including hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and morphine. VA prescriptions for these four medications have skyrocketed since 2001 by 270%, contributing … Read more on AllGov
VA's opiate overload feeds veterans' addictions, overdose deaths
Prescriptions for four opiates – hydrocodone, oxycodone, methadone and morphine – have surged by 270 percent in the past 12 years, according to data CIR obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. CIR's analysis for the first time exposes the full … Read more on Philly.com
Heroin, Cocaine, and Weed Are Stronger, Cheaper, and More Accessible Than …
We can look at emergency room reports of drug overdoses, fatal overdoses, hepatitis C transmissions and HIV. These are the kind of … In Canada, we've experimented with heroin prescriptions for people who have failed methadone treatment. The outcomes … Read more on VICE (blog)