A Pain-Drug Champion Has Second Thoughts – WSJ.com

A Pain-Drug Champion Has Second Thoughts – WSJ.com

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Two decades ago, the prominent New York pain-care specialist drove a movement to help people with chronic pain. He campaigned to rehabilitate a group … He rose to chairman of pain medicine and palliative care at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York …
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Mark Steyn: Look for health care bottlenecks

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But in the broken-down rural hinterlands, EHR and other novelties make it more lucrative for surviving medical centers to prioritize federal paperwork over patient care. For example, there's a lot of prescription drug abuse in this country, and so the …
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Inmate crowding study homes in on drug abuse

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(AP) — West Virginia can likely reduce prison crowding by assessing more quickly the risks posed by offenders and providing substance abuse treatment to those on probation, parole and other community-level supervision, researchers told state officials …
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