Monday, March 11, 2013

Painkiller Abuse Hits New States

Wall Street Journal
The epidemic in painkiller-abuse gripping the Southern and Eastern U.S. is tightening its hold on the Western part of the country, having blindsided law enforcement and public health authorities. "We're just in the beginning stages of grasping the full magnitude of this issue," said Elisha Figueroa, Idaho's drug-policy administrator, who started noticing that prescription-drug abuse was becoming pervasive in her state about two years ago.