The painkillers kill more people than heroin Bashny.Net

According to scientists, in recent years, dramatically increased the number of prescriptions issued for the pain, which naturally leads to an increase in their dosages.

The pain killers that contain a drug prescribed in order to satisfy his chronic pain, but these medications are addictive, the report says.

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In the experiment of the American Center for prevention and disease control says that the number of accidents resulting in death, caused by overdose of painkillers over the past 10 years has tripled, it is comparable to 50 deaths a day.

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In the past year, polls have shown that one in 30 Americans over the age of 13 years taking pain meds non-medical use.

"Nearly 6.1 thousand people consume painkillers are misused every day," – said the representative of the management treatment of drug addiction and mental health Pamela Hyde.

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