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Unfortunately I believe that we are limited in what we can focus on. I think that if we proceed with the partisan sideshow of prosecuting Bush admin. officials, healthcare will get lost in the brouhaha.
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Addiction Treatment Abused
The Baltimore Sun has launched a three-day investigation into the misuse of the drug buprenorphine, promoted as a treatment for opiate addiction, but increasingly sold and used illegally.
The federal government, according to the Sun, has spent millions to create and promote the drug as part of a plan to shift addiction treatment from clinics to physicians' offices. Some patients are selling their pills, which are sometimes subsidized by Medicaid. And some users have died after using the drug in combination with other substances.
By The Editors |
December 17, 2007; 10:33 AM ET
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