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Painkiller Addiction and Depression

model of brain and opioid pills illustrating prescription painkiller addiction and depression

Which Comes First – Prescription Painkiller Addiction or Depression? Researchers are now investigating the “chicken and the egg” relationship between depression and opiate abuse to determine the extent that one condition leads to another. Patients taking prescription painkillers sometimes develop depression. People with depression are more likely to start taking opiates, even when they are […]