Better Pain Management is Essential for Reducing Addiction to Prescription Painkillers

• By: Michael B. Friedman, LMSW Behavioral Health Policy Advocate
• January 1st, 2014
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Limiting use of prescription painkillers has become a major public health goal in the United States in large part because these drugs now cause more overdose deaths than cocaine and heroin combined. (1,2) Much of this effort focuses on persuading physicians to limit the frequency and the amount of...