Overdoses from legal drugs are exploding -- and a new plan to curb the crisis reveals one big flaw in our approach

Flickr/Be.futureproof On Thursday, health-insurance giant Cigna announced it was taking major steps to prevent and treat addiction. While the company is specifically targeting addiction to opioid painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin — it highlights a far bigger problem as well. There are currently no standards of medical care for treating addiction in this country.  "Unlike what we see in other chronic conditions, such as diabetes and cardiovascular disease, there currently exists no roa...