In 1988 Rod Colvin’s lost his brother, Randy, age 35, to a drug addiction. Randy’s death inspired Rod, a former journalist, to write “Prescription Drug Addiction—The Hidden Epidemic”. Rod currently is the publisher of Addicus Books, Omaha, Nebraska. From 2003 to 2005, Colvin served on an advisory panel to The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA), Columbia University, which produced “Under the Counter: The Diversion and Abuse of Prescription Drugs in the U.S.,” a landmark study on prescription drug abuse in the U. S.
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