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Abuse of prescription painkillers spurs move for online database

Pain patients understand why California's attorney general says he needs to raise $3.5 million to stop addicts and drug dealers who use doctors to stockpile Vicodin and OxyContin.

Abuse of prescription medicine is rampant in part because chronic pain can put your head in a vise and reduce you to a lump of flesh unable to do anything but lie on a sofa, said Bob Ramos of Santa Paula, whose spine has been surgically fused. It can feel as if "someone was grabbing your ligaments and pulling them out of your back," said Terry Kierzek of Agoura Hills, who had a cyst on his spine.

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