In the United States, nearly 30,000 deaths a year can be attributed to the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers. Opioids like OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocet and Methadone. This epidemic in part was due to the surge in prescriptions being written over the last two decades. As opioid epidemic worsens, rethinking how doctors are taught to treat pain However, a new analysis reveals that for each of the last three years, prescriptions are being written for opioids decline.
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