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Prescription Drug Abuse Targeted in U.S. House Bill

Source: Wall Street Journal | Nation | July 19, 2012



Four House lawmakers will introduce legislation requiring most pain drugs to adopt abuse-deterring safeguards, the broadest congressional attempt at curbing the nation's prescription-drug problem.

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