Prescription drug abuse

1: Pain and anxiety in America

National disorder: treating chronic conditions

Taking on the scourge of opioids / Sally Satel

How prescription-drug abuse unleashed a heroin epidemic / Kevin D. Williamson

The truth about prescription pills: one writer's story of anxiety and addiction / Kelley McMillan

Almost half of all opioid misuse starts with a friend of family member's prescription / Roni Dengler

Yes, benzos are bad for you / Allen Frances

Casualties of the VA / David French

War on prescription drugs: what if you depend on opioids to live a decent life? / S.E. Smith.

2: Drugs for young and old

Spectrum of risk

Prescription drug abuse among older adults is harder to detect / Constance Gustke

Old and overmedicated: the real drug problem in nursing homes / Ina Jaffe and Robert Benincasa

Fatal friendships: what happens when women share drugs on Facebook / Jill DiDonato

College students aren't the only ones abusing Adderall / Emma Pierson

Smack epidemic / L. Jon Wertheim

US child opioid overdoses increased over past two decades, research finds / Jessica Glenza

The hefty price of "study drug" misuse on college campuses / Linda Begdache

Risky alone, deadly together / Kimberly Kindy and Dan Keating.

3: Doctors, big pharma and the gateway to abuse

The prescription drug business

The selling of Attention Deficit Disorder / Alan Schwarz

When the mailman unwittingly becomes a drug dealer / Arian Campo-Flores and Jon Kamp

Alison's story: how $750,000 in drug "treatment" destroyed her life / Warren Richey

Drug-company payments mirror doctors' brand-name prescribing / Charles Ornstein, Ryann Grochowski Jones, and Mike Tigas

Opioid Rx abuse probe sees a record 31 doctors hit with sanctions in New Jersey / Elizabeth Llorente.

4: A search for solutions - treatment

Treatment and wellness

A primary care doctor delves into the opioid epidemic / Monique Tello

The doctors who started the opioid epidemic / Paul A. Offit

Can we curb the opioid abuse epidemic by rethinking chronic pain? /

Richard Gunderman

The painkillers that could end the opioid crisis / Adam Piore

How medical marijuana could help end the opioid epidemic / Eric Killelea

What's really causing the prescription drug crisis? / Johann Hari

After medical marijuana legalized, Medicare prescriptions drop for many drugs / Shefali Luthra.

5: A search for solutions - policy

The policy approach: restricting supply and legalizing treatment

Researchers use black-market drug website to gauge public health / Felice J. Freyer

Are pharmaceutical companies to blame for the opioid epidemic? / Alana Semuels

Ohio sues five drugmakers, saying they fueled opioid crisis / Jeanne Whalen

Congress probes West Virginia opioid shipments / Eric Eyre

States require opioid prescribers to check for "doctor shopping" / Christine Vestal

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