HealthDay News: Painkillers the new "gateway" drugs

By John DellaContrada

Release Date: August 27, 2010 This content is archived.

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An article distributed by HealthDay news service reports a UB study has found that prescription drugs may be the way that many drug addicts first get hooked, making these legal medicines the new "gateway" drugs. The article appeared in BusinessWeek and U.S. News & World Report.

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