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Woman describes painkiller prescription leading to heroin addiction

Deaths from heroin use have climbed dramatically in the last couple of years, with the overdose of actor Phillip Seymour Hoffman putting a spotlight on the problem. For many users, heroin addiction begins in the medicine cabinet. Susan McGinnis meets a 24-year-old whose prescription for painkillers led her to heroin use. Source

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