Drug addicts get hooked via prescriptions, keep using ‘to feel like a better person,’ research shows

Friday, August 20, 2010 - 12:56 in Psychology & Sociology

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- If you want to know how people become addicted and why they keep using drugs, ask the people who are addicted. Thirty-one of 75 patients hospitalized for opioid detoxification told...

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