Prescription Medicines Killing Hundreds

Published April 8, 2014

Prescription medicines killing hundreds
Victoria's 374 drug overdose deaths exceeded the state's road toll of 242 last year. In many cases illicit drugs and alcohol also contributed to the prescription-drug deaths, but in 143 cases the deaths were due to prescription-drug use alone …
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He prescribed her unsually large doses of alprazolam, an addictive anti-anxiety drug, and oxycodone, a potent opiate painkiller. The medical examiner ruled it an accidental overdose. Nobody reported the death to the Oklahoma Board of Osteopathic …
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