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Legal painkillers kill more people than heroin and cocaine
Seventy five million three hundred seventeen thousand seven hundred eighteen
Prescription painkillers becomes cause of death of far more people than the abuse of heroin and cocaine combined. Such shocking conclusion reached by canadian scientists from McGill University, according to "Obozrevatel".
Prescription pain medications opioids act on pain receptors in the brain, which helps to reduce the level of pain. But these same drugs cause a feeling of euphoria, and their regular intake flows in physical dependency and addiction. For the first time in the history of science, scientists decided to find out exactly how many deaths cause of this kind of medicines.
It turned out that the number of deaths from opioid analgesics are significantly greater than the number of victims heroin and cocaine combined.
We also found out that in the world ranking of consumption of this kind of painkillers per capita first place firmly holds the U.S. and the second in Canada. Only in 2010, opioid painkillers caused the death of 16 000 Americans.
Usually opioids have a sedative effect and slow the breath, but to achieve euphoria people take lots of drugs, and sometimes the breathing they have slowed down so that it ceases altogether.
This is the most common cause of death from an overdose of prescription drugs.
According to the American Center for control and prevention, in 2012, about 12 million citizens have used prescription painkillers for off-label purposes, and to produce a narcotic effect.
Source: www.ecology.md
Prescription painkillers becomes cause of death of far more people than the abuse of heroin and cocaine combined. Such shocking conclusion reached by canadian scientists from McGill University, according to "Obozrevatel".
Prescription pain medications opioids act on pain receptors in the brain, which helps to reduce the level of pain. But these same drugs cause a feeling of euphoria, and their regular intake flows in physical dependency and addiction. For the first time in the history of science, scientists decided to find out exactly how many deaths cause of this kind of medicines.
It turned out that the number of deaths from opioid analgesics are significantly greater than the number of victims heroin and cocaine combined.
We also found out that in the world ranking of consumption of this kind of painkillers per capita first place firmly holds the U.S. and the second in Canada. Only in 2010, opioid painkillers caused the death of 16 000 Americans.
Usually opioids have a sedative effect and slow the breath, but to achieve euphoria people take lots of drugs, and sometimes the breathing they have slowed down so that it ceases altogether.
This is the most common cause of death from an overdose of prescription drugs.
According to the American Center for control and prevention, in 2012, about 12 million citizens have used prescription painkillers for off-label purposes, and to produce a narcotic effect.
Source: www.ecology.md