Saturday, November 21, 2009
Prescription drugs cause most of 26,000+ fatal overdoses each year. Addiction to prescription painkillers became unrecognized epidemic. Deadlier than Cocaine, Heroin, and Swine Flu. Opioid painkillers - opium-like drugs that include morphine and codeine - more than tripled 1999 to 2006, to 13,800 deaths in 06. Prescription painkillers have now surpassed heroin and cocaine however, as the leading cause of fatal overdoses
