A Construction Worker’s Rapid Fall From Pain Treatment to Full-Blown Painkiller Addiction
Drug treatment not yet focus of task force
COLUMBUS — There was talk of criminal investigations, dangerous drug databases, unlawful pain clinics and more during the Ohio Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force’s inaugural meetings. But there was one cornerstone to the epidemic’s cure that Gov. Ted Strickland would have not seen in the task force’s initial report: drug rehab.
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Saudi Program Looks to U.S. for Addiction Treatment Guidance
In Saudi Arabia, where alcohol and other drug use is strictly forbidden by Islamic law, acknowledging and treating addicts poses significant challenges.
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A construction worker’s rapid fall from pain treatment to full-blown painkiller addiction
By Robert Johnson When the boom crane snapped its moorings and fell on Joe* in the wet, muddy Chicago fall of 1988, it was a bad start to a long Thanksgiving weekend. “It took three guys to lift the crane off me,” Joe says, “but I was fine. Muddy, sore and cold, but fine. I mean, I thought I was fine.” He wasn’t. And 15 years, eight surgeries, two screws in his neck, five pins in his spine and …
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