Obama tackles heroin and prescription drugs addiction in new initiative

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama will announce a series of new public and private sector initiatives Tuesday designed to expand treatment, funding and education to combat the nation's prescription opioid and heroin abuse problem. Opioids are a class of narcotic pain medications that include prescription drugs like OxyContin, Percocet and morphine, along with the illegal drug…

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