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While illegal drug use among teens seems to be dropping, perfectly legal medicines like Oxycontin, Ritalin and Methadone are increasingly being misused, sometimes with serious consequences. We’ll look at the trends and how the health care system might change in response.

Guests

• Jacqui Abikoff, Executive Director of the Horizons Counseling Center
• Dr. Thomas Andrew, Chief Medical Examiner for the New Hampshire Department of Justice
• Ira Byock, Professor of Anesthesiology and Community and Family Medicine, Chair of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Medical School, Director of Palliative Medicine at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and a Member of the Steering Committee for the NH Pain Initiative