The Hill, July 18, 2014
"A coalition of leading healthcare stakeholders is urging the White House to move forward with a plan to fight prescription drug abuse.
The Alliance to Prevent the Abuse of Medicines, whose members include CVS and the American Medical Association, wrote to the administration's drug czar with praise for his 2014 policy agenda.
'We unequivocally support the position that reducing the incidence of abuse must be done primarily through a public-health approach, rather than through incarceration,' the coalition wrote to Michael Botticelli, acting director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.
'A public health focus is necessary to balance the need to curb prescription drug abuse, diversion, overdose and death while simultaneously ensuring that patients have access to the appropriate treatments.'" Read more
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