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Too many doctors are quick to write prescriptions for pain medication and it is helping to fuel the heroin epidemic in this country. Please be upfront with your doctors if you have a history of substance abuse. If you don’t have that history, please be careful anyway!
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This is a very important issue because many people who are addicted to heroin start with prescription meds and then move to heroin when they stop getting prescribed or because it is cheaper. Doctors need to be very careful when prescribing opiates.
people need to be aware of the side effects of their medication because medicine fix something and mess something else up.