Doctors, patients caught in the middle of narcotics ‘epidemic’
December 16, 2012 in Duluth News Tribune
As the number of prescriptions for narcotic painkillers has increased over the last several years, doctors “are in the sight of the gun,” said Dr. Farris Keeling, a family practice physician at Essentia Health who specializes in treating chronic pain.
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