Drug Abuse Statistics: Report Finds Major Surge in Prescription Drug Deaths

Drug Abuse Statistics: Report Finds Major Surge in Prescription Drug Deaths
More people die in America every year from prescription drug abuse than die from heroin and cocaine combined. That stunning finding comes in a new report Tuesday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Drug Abuse Statistics: Feds refuse to limit production of deadly Oxycodone
By Guy Taylor, Special to the Times Tuesday, November 1, 2011 An epidemic of Oxycodone abuse has struck America in the last decade. The number of emergency room visits stemming from nonmedical abuse of the narcotic prescription painkiller drug rose by 256 percent between 2004 and 2009, according to the U.S. government’s Drug Abuse Warning Network. In Florida, the Medical Examiners Commission …
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