The Other Drug War: Deadly Prescriptions

21 July 2010, 6:34 am

(The New York Times News Service) -- Prescription drugs have killed 1,200 people in Harris County since 2006 -- casualties in a deadly American drug war in which dealers are often doctors and pharmaceutical companies rather than narcotics cartels.... Read More »

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