Nearly 1 in 3 on Medicare got commonly abused opioids
Wednesday, June 22, 2016 - 10:31
in Health & Medicine
CHICAGO (AP) -- Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans' medicine cabinets....