Appalachia Besieged by Painkiller Addiction
January 15th, 2008 Posted by: Dr. Dobson
A hardscrabble region where employment is often limited to working the mines or working in prisons, Appalachia also has become home to some of the nation’s worst addiction problems, the Washington Post reported Jan. 13.
OxyContin first appeared as a drug of abuse in the region almost a decade ago, but experts say prescription-drug abuse is worse now than ever. In western Virginia, for example, 248 people died of overdoses in 2006, a 270-percent increase from a decade earlier.
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