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What Can Be Done to Address Elderly Addiction? 

AIHC

In fact, opioid prescriptions for pain management in older adults increased ninefold from 1995 to 2010. As such, research is required to create screening methods that help detect substance abuse in older adults, which often work best with the application of coexisting medical and psychiatric conditions.