Addicts Keep Using Prescription Painkillers but Supplement with Heroin (AUDIO)
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Heroin use has grown to epidemic levels around the country as prescription painkillers have gotten harder to get, but new research from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis shows that although they use heroin sometimes, prescription drug abusers haven't stopped using those drugs completely. Instead, many say they switch back and forth, often according to the cost or availability of the prescription drugs. Jim Dryden has the story...
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