New powerful painkiller has drug abuse experts worried

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

NEW YORK -- Drug companies are working to develop a pure, more powerful version of the nation's second most-abused medicine, which has addiction experts worried that it could spur a new wave of abuse.

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