A board listing drugs in short supply at the University of Utah Hospital, in Salt Lake City, in late August 2011. At hospitals across the country, "scoring drugs" has taken on a new meaning. Hundreds admit buying medicines at exorbitant prices from "gray market" dealers taking advantage of, and possibly exacerbating, a record shortage of life-saving prescription medicines.(AP Photo/Jim Urquhart)
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