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White suburbanites going from pain pills to heroin

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Chicago Tribune

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September 26, 2011

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CDC survey finds that 1 in 5 U.S. high school students have abused prescription drugs

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June 3, 2010

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Prescription for peril: how insurance fraud finances theft and abuse of addictive prescription drugs

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2007

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Utah launches studies of its overdose deaths

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Salt Lake Tribune

Publication Date:

3/23/10

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NIH podcast on prescription drug abuse in women

Publication Date:

2010

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Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant prescription opioid use

Author:

Jamison, R. N.

Publication Date:

2010

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Journal of Pain 11:4 312-320.

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Increase in fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics in the United States, 1999–2006

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2009

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Analytic models to identify patients at risk for prescription opioid abuse

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White, Alan G., Birnbaum, H. G., Schiller, M., Tang, J., Katz, N. P.

Publication Date:

2009

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The American Journal of Managed Care; 15: 12 897-906

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Gender differences in risk factors for aberrant prescription opioid use

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Jamison, R.N.

Publication Date:

2010

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Journal of Pain. 11(4): 312-320.

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Unintentional drug overdose death trends in New Mexico, USA, 1990-2005: combinations of heroin, cocaine, prescription opioids and alcohol

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Shah, N.G., Lathrop, S.L., Reichard, R.R., Landen, M.G.

Publication Date:

2008

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Addiction. 103(1):126-36

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