Vital Signs: Patterns: Many Fatal Overdoses Linked to Methadone

Monday, July 9, 2012 - 16:50 in Health & Medicine

The drug accounted for 1.7 percent of the 257 million prescriptions written in 2009 for opioid pain relievers, but it was involved in 31.4 percent of overdose deaths.

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