Guest Yahoo! News Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 [attach=full]25940[/attach]The White House announced a new strategy on Monday to tackle the explosion in heroin use in a collection of eastern states, focusing on treating addicts rather than punishing them and targeting high-level suppliers for arrest. The move is a response to a sharp rise in the use of heroin and opiate-based painkillers, which the U.S. Centers for Disease Control has described as an epidemic. An estimated 45 percent of U.S. heroin users are also addicted to prescription painkillers. Continue reading... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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