Men more likely to die from high-dose opioid use, Ontario doctors find

Friday, August 21, 2015 - 09:20 in Health & Medicine

More than one in 10 people prescribed an opioid painkiller for the first time become chronic uses, say Ontario researchers who also found the men are twice as likely as women to die from causes related to the drugs.

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