Ros was dead. He had loved heroin more than it loved him. I was shocked beyond imagining; he was the first of my friends to fall.
To end the drug crisis, we should educate everyone about the dangers of opioid drugs, help drug users get treatment, and aggressively prosecute criminals who supply the deadly poison.
Using prescription drug monitoring programs is an important step in identifying patients who may be improperly using prescription painkillers.
I watched the needle take another man.
We lose thousands of our fellow Americans every year to opioid abuse.
Health care providers can follow guidelines for responsible painkiller prescribing and talk with their patients about the risks and benefits of taking prescription painkillers.
Like the plague, opioids kill the young, the old, the healthy, the sick, the virtuous and the sinful.
We can work on sharpening our prescribing practices, working with clinicians to ensure we're treating pain safely and effectively.
The Force deals a lot with the heroin epidemic, which I'm sorry to know people are experiencing in Canada.
We have a massive heroin opioid epidemic problem in America, part of that is because of drugs coming from the cartels from the south.
