May 25, 2011
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Investigators from Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Southern California found that states with the greatest expansion in high-speed Internet access from 2000 to 2007 also had the largest increase in admissions for treatment of prescription drug abuse. In their report, Dana Goldman, PhD, director of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at USC, and lead author Anupam B. Jena, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Medicine, note that the recent marked rise in the abuse of prescription narcotic painkillers corresponds with an increase in the presence of online pharmacies, many of which do not adhere to regulations requiring a physician's prescription.
May 25, 2011
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