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January 06, 2010
Addiction experts troubled by pain-clinic doctors who treat drug addicts.
The Miami Herald (12/30, Hiaasen) reports that some South Florida physicians "treat drug addicts while at the same time giving pain patients addictive" medications that "have been blamed for a spike in overdose deaths statewide."
According to "addiction experts...this mixing of two delicate medical fields has potentially dangerous consequences: Instead of receiving the therapy they need, addicts seeking to get off drugs may simply end up alongside users and drug peddlers who frequently skip from clinic to clinic seeking narcotics to be sold illegally."
Related Links:
- South Florida pain-clinic doctors also treat drug addicts," Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald, December 29, 2009.
Posted by admin at January 6, 2010 08:14 PM