ADDICTION IN RURAL AMERICA
Waqar Aziz, MD
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ural Americans have received a rude
wakeup call in the past few years.
What they thought was only the
plague of inner cities has made it to the suburbs and to rural America. Generations of
rural Americans, and those that migrated
from city to suburbs to live and raise their
families in peace and tranquility, have found
that utopian dream shattered. The harsh reality is that no one is immune from drug abuse, including the kid
from the family farm, teenagers, the professional, the homemaker,
and the factory worker.
narcotic and how to bypass the anti-diversion modalities put in by
the manufacturer.
According to the CDC, 44 people die every day from prescription
painkiller overdose. Opioids and benzodiazepines are the most
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