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Heroin has replaced Oxycontin and other prescription narcotics since the DEA cracked down on the Pill Mills and implemented the Prescription Monitoring system which tracks physicians prescribing patterns and also makes doctor shopping by addicts extremely difficult. The question is why the government failed to predict this epidemic as it was only logical that if the opioid treatment demand (methadone and buprenorphine) was greater than the capacity to provide services to the prescription opioid addicts then the addicts would use what was available to maintain their addiction.

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