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Dear Pharmacist: What if no one can see your pain?

Dear Pharmacist: Have you noticed the trend of celebrities dying from medications? I can think of Michael Jackson, Amy Winehouse and, most recently, Whitney Houston. Do you think they should restrict the use of painkillers to prevent this? -- T.W., Birmingham, Ala.

No, people in pain should not have to suffer because others abuse their medicine. At the time of my writing, Houston's death has...

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