City Room: Prescriptions for Opioid Painkillers Climb in City
Thursday, May 3, 2012 - 01:40
in Health & Medicine
A city task force reported a 22 percent increase in two years and called for legislation to better track prescriptions, with the goal of preventing drug abuse.
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