US aims at its deadliest drug problem: painkillers
Wednesday, April 20, 2011 - 02:00
in Health & Medicine
(AP) -- The White House drug czar wants doctors, states and law enforcement working harder to stop America's deadliest drug-abuse problem: highly addictive prescription painkillers. They are killing more people than heroin and cocaine combined as they foster a slew of illegal "pill mill" clinics centered in Florida.