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Is misuse of prescription painkillers among youth athletes leading to heroin use?

  • Written by Phil Veliz, Assistant Research Professor, Sociology, University of Michigan
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Over the past several years, the sports media have presented several stories of youth athletes who have become addicted to prescription painkillers and eventually turned to heroin. If fact, one of these reports in Sports Illustrated was ominously titled “How...

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