Jeffrey Coben

Professor of Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University

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Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Medicine and at West Virginia University and Director of its Center for Rural Emergency Medicine

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Prescription drug abuse is nothing new, but now it's being called epidemic, "from the Hollywood hills to the hollows of West Virginia."

Abuse of Prescription Drugs Is Being Called a 'National Epidemic'

Prescription drug abuse is nothing new, but now it's being called epidemic, "from the Hollywood hills to the hollows of West Virginia."

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