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PRESCRIPTION DRUG ABUSE

Joseph A. Califano, Jr., chairman and president of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, discusses a new report about the use of controlled prescription drugs in the U.S. during a news conference on July 7, 2005, at the National Press Club in Washington. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg)

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