More Drug Overdose Deaths From Prescription Pain Killers Than Cocaine Or Heroin In The US

... Trends analysis of drug poisoning deaths has helped explain a national epidemic of overdose deaths in the USA that began in the 1990s, concludes Leonard Paulozzi and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, USA. The contribution of prescription pain killers to the epidemic has only become clear recently. [click link for full article] ...