Kentucky Addicted Babies Increasing Despite Pain-Pill Crackdown

Kentucky addicted babies increasing despite pain-pill crackdown
While state reports show drug overdoses overall have begun to level off as the state places tighter restrictions on pain-pill prescriptions, abusers have turned to heroin, and overdoses have risen steeply, from 42 in 2011 to 129 in 2012. The Courier …
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Buprenorphine Prescribing 'Disappointingly Low'
A study conducted by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle showed that following completion of training, fewer than a third of physicians reported prescribing buprenorphine to treat addiction. … enormously in the US over the last 15 …
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