Prescription Drug Abuse Kills (Infographic)

Monday, December 12, 2011 - 15:30 in Health & Medicine

A CDC study reveals that deaths due to overdose of opioid pain relievers (powerful opium-derived analgesics such as Oxycontin and Percocet) are now killing more people than heroin and cocaine.

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