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Alert: Growing Drug Scourge in Idaho
People are dying and it will get worse.
What treatment is available? What should you know?
The full force of the heroin outbreak has yet to reach Idaho. Opiates are the scourge in Utah. Locally, it remains methamphetamine. The medical community is re-examining how it prescribes painkillers. There is also a difference between dependency and addiction. The latter ruins lives. What treatment is available? What should you know? Some answers today on Better Health with Tripp Family Medicine. You can watch below:
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