NEW YORK (AP) -- Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic....
Stories Related to Painkiller Sales Soar Around Us, Fuel Addiction
By CHRIS HAWLEY, Associated Press
Thu, 04/05/2012 - 4:45am
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