ObamaCare Slams Smokers With Sky-High Premium Costs, Could Backfire

ObamaCare slams smokers with sky-high premium costs, could backfire
"Charging tobacco users more in health insurance premiums, sometimes thousands of dollars more, studies have shown, will price smokers out of the market," says Singleterry. Unlike drug addicts, alcoholics, or the obese — all of whom represent higher … Read more on Fox News

Henry Radel, tell other Republicans that all addicts deserve help
Addiction is a disease, whether the drug is legal or illegal. A heroin addict should be no less deserving of our sympathy, our understanding, and our public assistance, than that afforded to an alcoholic. If anything, the Republicans have it backwards. Read more on The Guardian

The immune system's role in addiction
But the immune system that surrounds the dopamine systems of the brain also seem to be very sensitive to drugs of abuse. So much so, that in preclinical studies it is possible to make rats like alcohol, opioids and methamphetamine a lot more, just by … Read more on Medical Xpress

Prescription drug abuse 'enormous'
According to the Utah Division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health, there were approximately 50 deaths statewide from accidental or undetermined intent overdoses from non-illicit drugs in 1999. In 2007, the number was nearly 350. According to … Read more on St. George Daily Spectrum