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Preventing Overdose: Obama Administration Drug Czar Calls For Wider Access to Overdose Antidote

For the first time, the drug czar has supported broadening access to naloxone, the life-saving prescription drug that …

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Are Doctors Really to Blame for the Overdose Epidemic?

By Maia Szalavitz Nov. 02, 2011

Forty people die each day from what Dr. Thomas Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calls an “epidemic” of prescription drug overdose. Frieden largely attributes the rise in overdose …