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Seven startling facts about prescription painkillers

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 03/14/2014 - 10:05


  1. Forty-five people die every day from opioid prescription painkillers – more deaths than heroin and cocaine overdoses combined
  2. In 2010, enough prescription painkillers were provided to medicate every American around the clock for an entire month
  3. More than 70 percent of people who abused prescription pain relievers got the pills from friends or relatives
  4. The U.S. contains only 4.6 percent of the world’s population but consumes 80 percent of the world’s opioids and 99 percent of the world’s hydrocodone
  5. While middle-aged men and women have the highest prescription painkiller fatal overdose rates, the rates are increasing most rapidly among women
  6. Prescription painkillers are gateway drugs to heroin
  7. Heroin overdose deaths receive significant media attention. But while these deaths increased 45 percent from 2006-2010, prescription painkiller deaths have risen by more than 300 percent since 1999


Source: National Safety Council
Source URL: http://www.nsc.org/Pages/Seven-startling-facts-about-prescri...



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