Vicodin | The Epoch Times

High School Heroin Use Starts With Painkillers in 3 out of 4 Cases

Prescription painkillers are a leading cause of the American heroin epidemic, and a key issue in the New Hampshire primaries. President Obama now proposed $1.1 billion for urgent action to ...

February 11, 2016BY ResearchGate

Painkiller Politics: Effort to Curb Prescribing Under Fire

WASHINGTON—A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded ...

December 19, 2015BY The Associated Press

From the Clinic to the Street: How the Explosion in Prescription Painkillers Has Created More Heroin Users

In the early years of my clinical practice as a psychologist treating heroin users, I commonly saw adolescents ...

November 25, 2015BY Jeannie D. DiClementi

Do Stricter Controls Curb Opioid Abuse?

Americans consume a staggering amount of the opioid painkiller hydrocodone—about 99 percent of the world's supply. In October, ...

November 15, 2014BY G. Caleb Alexander