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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Tue Dec 22, 2015, 12:16 PM Dec 2015

TYT: The Real Drug Problem In America

Anti-drug crusaders have new cause for concern about rising overdose drug deaths, but the drugs doing the killing aren't the drugs they're warning about. John Iadarola (ThinkTank) discusses which drugs are killing people, and which states are seeing these overdose deaths.

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TYT: The Real Drug Problem In America (Original Post) WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2015 OP

I worry for people who suffer from chronic pain being labeled drug seekers and viewed with suspicion Ed Suspicious Dec 2015 #1

Ed Suspicious

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1. I worry for people who suffer from chronic pain being labeled drug seekers and viewed with suspicion

Reply to WhoIsNumberNone (Original post)

Tue Dec 22, 2015, 12:59 PM

Dec 2015

Ultimately, I worry they won't be able to get the quality of life saving medications they need. This anti-drug stuff makes me super nervous.

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