Jeffrey Coben

Professor of Emergency Medicine, West Virginia University

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Professor in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Community Medicine and at West Virginia University and Director of its Center for Rural Emergency Medicine

Jeffrey Coben on KCRW

Prescription drug abuse is nothing new, but now it's being called epidemic, "from the Hollywood hills to the hollows of West Virginia."

Abuse of Prescription Drugs Is Being Called a 'National Epidemic'

Prescription drug abuse is nothing new, but now it's being called epidemic, "from the Hollywood hills to the hollows of West Virginia."

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