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How serious a problem is prescription drug abuse?
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Drug abuse: Very serious - to the extent that current practices are being forced to change by government forced guidelines in which pain medications will be very difficult to get.
Answered 3/18/2014
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Drug abuse: Very very serious. It undermines the Doctor-patient relationship & interferes with treatment.
Answered 5/10/2015
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