NEW YORK — Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, a The Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic.
Painkiller sales soar around U.S., fuel addiction
Thursday, April 5, 2012 | 10:15 a.m. CDT;
updated 6:38 p.m. CDT, Thursday, April 5, 2012
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