The year 2008 is leaving with a bang for the Prescription Addiction Radio Show. The Obama Transition Team on Health Care is beginning to receive letters from a newly formed group called “Advocates For Prescription Opioid Drug Reform”. A quote from Dr. Kirk Van Rooyan’s letter ( http://media.novusdetox.com/dependence.php?include=137616 ) begins to state the problem well: “For more than a decade prescription opioids have been aggressively marketed to America’s physicians for treatment of chronic, non-cancer pain of moderate severity. As a result, hydrocodone prescribing increased by 198%, fentanyl by 423%, oxycodone by 588%, and methodone by 933% during this period, and 80% of the world’s prescription opioid supply is now consumed in the U.S”...