From the desk of Mercola: Story at-a-glance Narcotic painkillers are a driving force in the rise of substance abuse and lethal overdoses In 2012, 259 million prescriptions for opioids and other narcotic painkillers were written in the US; 46 people die from opioid overdose each and every day Alabama tops the list of painkiller prescriptions, with 143 prescriptions for every 100 people—three times the amount in Hawaii, the lowest prescribing state Chicago and two California counties—Orange and Santa Clara—have filed a lawsuit against five drug companies that manufacture OxyContin, charging them with contributing to an epidemic of drug abuse Santa Clara spends millions of dollars to treat overdoses and addiction in its public hospitals, and wants the drug makers to pay for these costs, as they purposefully downplayed the risks of their narcotic painkillers For the entire article go to: articles.mercola/sites/articles/archive/2014/07/17/painkiller-addiction-overdose.aspx?e_cid=20140717Z1_DNL_art_1&utm_source=dnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20140717Z1&et_cid=DM52794&et_rid=589316352
Posted on: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 08:45:53 +0000
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