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Addiction risk: factors to consider

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Addiction risk: factors to consider

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Some people are more likely to become addicted to prescription pain medications. In this video, Nora Volkow, MD, Director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse at the National Institutes of Health, shares whose most at risk.

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