Efforts to Combat Prescription Opioid Abuse
Prescription opioid abuse is now epidemic in our country. The statistics regarding addiction and death are staggering. The rate of death due to overdose of prescription opioids more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2010. This far exceeds the combined death toll from cocaine and heroin overdoses. In 2010 alone, prescription opioids were involved in 16,651 … Read More
