During 1999–2006, the number of poisoning deaths in the United States nearly doubled, from approximately 20,000 to 37,000, largely because of overdose deaths involving prescription opioid painkillers (1). This increase coincided with a nearly fourfold increase in the use of prescription opioids nationally (2). In Washington, in 2006, the rate of poisoning involving opioid painkillers [...]
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WASHINGTON – As Congress debates the government’s role in health care, a report out today finds that state and federal officials failed to detect millions of dollars in Medicaid prescription-drug abuse. An audit of the government program in five large states found about 65,000 instances of beneficiaries improperly obtaining potentially addictive drugs at a cost of [...] By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Jones, 50, was trying to relieve chronic pain caused by rheumatoid arthritis. Yet after taking the painkiller Percocet safely for 10 years, the stay-at-home mother of three became addicted after a friend suggested that crushing her pills could bring faster relief. It worked. The [...] // by ROBIN WILLIAMS ADAMS TAMPA — Pain treatment, a field fraught with potential for abuse by patients and doctors, is under the microscope. Florida is trying to stop improper use of painkillers by requiring pain clinics to register with the state and establishing an electronic database to monitor prescriptions. Having that database is expected to make [...] |
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