Experts Seek Options on Painkiller Abuse

March 12, 2007 By LAURAN NEERGAARD, AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- Scientists are hunting new ways to help millions of pain sufferers - from addiction-resistant narcotics to using brain scanners for biofeedback - amid a worrisome rise in abuse of today's top prescription painkillers.

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