Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME

Drug Methadone: Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths – TIME


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Methadone: A Major Driver of Prescription Painkiller Overdose Deaths
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Methadone accounts for nearly 1 in 3 prescription painkiller overdose deaths in the U.S., even though only 2% of prescriptions for opioid painkillers are for this drug, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Many Fatal Overdoses Linked to Methadone
New York Times (blog)
Methadone accounted for almost a third of the deaths caused by opioid pain relievers in 2009, even though it was prescribed far less often than other such drugs, government researchers have found. Researchers writing in last week's Morbidity and
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Drug Methadone: Methadone blamed for 1 of 10 Ohio drug deaths – WFMJ

Methadone blamed for 1 of 10 Ohio drug deaths
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The Ohio Department of Health says methadone is responsible for one of every 10 accidental drug overdose deaths in the state.

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Drug Methadone: Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths – Deseret News

Rise in prescription drug abuse prompts emergency room visits, deaths
Deseret News
Doctors started prescribing methadone, which is best known for its use in addiction treatment, as a pain killer in the late 1990s after drug addicts figured out a way to get around Oxycontin's time-release mechanism by crushing and snorting. methadone

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