People without ID, like Steven Kemp, are sometimes turned away from the country’s already threadbare system of drug treatment centers.
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President Trump declared the opioid epidemic a national emergency. But we need to do a lot more to prevent this crisis from escalating even further.
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Doctors know that inappropriate prescribing can lead to antibiotic resistance. So why do they keep doing it?
Overdoing it? Pills and thrills and bellyaches.
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When one in six hospitalisations of older patients are due to harm from their medicines, then something is going seriously wrong.
More doctors, more antibiotics?
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When retail health clinics move into new areas, antibiotic prescription rates go up.