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Painkillers Come Really Easy With the Right NYC Doctor
More than 80 percent of prescriptions for pills like OxyContin and Vicodin came from just 15 percent of New York City's drug-providing doctors in 2010, according to a new report from the Bloomberg administration, while more than 30 percent of the opioid prescriptions were written by just one percent of
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Patients 13 To 24 Given Opioids For Pain More Than Twice As Likely To Become Addicted If They Have Mental Health Disorder
Long-term use and abuse of opioid painkillers, such as OxyContin and Vicodin, has markedly increased in the United States in the last two decades. Of note, prescription opioids constitute 86.9 percent of prescription drug misuse amo... Read Post
Panel Turns Down FDA Proposal To Control Prescription Narcotic Painkillers
An FDA (Food and Drug Administration), USA Advisory Committee voted 25 to 10 against a proposal to reduce the abuse and misuse of long-acting narcotic painkillers, such as OxyContin or Vicodin. Although the Advisory Committee's reco... Read Post
Woman says doctor in murder case provided her hundreds of pills weekly
A Rowland Heights doctor charged with murder in connection with fatal overdoses from prescription drugs provided one woman with hundreds of addictive painkiller pills a week and wrote prescriptions for the patient’s husband without ... Read Post