Feb 21 - Fatal painkiller overdoses rise for eleven straight years

Fatal painkiller overdoses rise for eleven straight years â€” RT USA

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	More Americans are dying from prescription drug overdose each year, causing a public health epidemic that has only been getting worse. And most of the fatalities are accidents, with 60 percent of overdoses involving medicines prescribed by a doctor. Since 1999, prescription drug use, misuse and overdose has increased steadily, causing the [rip]s of at least 20,000 US residents each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relayed in a new report. In 2010, 38,329 people died of drug overdose in the US – and only 40 percent of these [rip]s were the result of taking illegal narcotics. About 60 percent of the fatalities were due to an overdose of prescription medicines, including addictive painkillers like OxyContin and Vicodin. Such opioid drugs were responsible for three out of four medication overdose [rip]s, which accounted for 22,134 [rip]s in 2010. But while some might suspect [rip] to be a cause for the high fatality rate, the CDC reports that only 17 percent of the medication-related [rip]s were considered [rip]. Most of the other [rip]s were a result of patients getting addicted to ease the pain of their health conditions – and taking more than their prescribed dose. Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the CDC, told the[..]ociated Press that the risk of taking opioids is so high that he recommends patients to find safer alternatives. Opioids are useful for cancer, “but if you’ve got terrible back pain or terrible migraines,” using these drugs is very dangerous, Frieden said. “The big picture is that this is a big problem that has gotten much worse quickly,” he added. While the CDC does not have statistics on the number of drug overdose [rip]s past 2010, Dr. Rich Zane, chair of emergency medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, believes they have undoubtedly increased. “The results are consistent with what we [currently] experience” in emergency rooms, he told AP. The overdose epidemic has alarmed some states. West Virginia’s fatality rate increased over 500 percent in about a decade, causing serious concern over the prescription of opioids. Nationwide, [rip]s from prescription drug overdoses have quadrupled from 1999 to 2010, bringing the latest total to 23,000. Most of the prescription drug-related [rip]s occurred in adults between the ages of 35 and 44. “I saw so many people die from pills,” Law Enforcement Against Prohibition speaker Nate Bradley told the San Francisco Chronicle. “My first autopsy was a Vicodin overdose – the accidental Vicodin overdose of a 38-year-old woman. And I sat there and watched them take apart her body, because she accidentally had too much.” With more people dying accidentally from Vicodin than heroin, states are attempting to spread a greater awareness of the dangers of prescription drugs, as well as make them more difficult to get. Some states are introducing laws that would shut down “pill mills”, which are doctors’ officers and pharmacies notorious for over-prescribing addictive medicines, Frieden explained. “This is really a state problem or even a national problem,” University of Nebraska Medical Center Dr. Aly Ha#san told Medical News Today. The CDC last year referred to prescription drug overdose as an “epidemic”, and doctors predict this epidemic only to worsen as more Americans become addicted to the medicines meant to alleviate their pain.
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02-21-2013, 01:31 PM

Ha ha ha ha, that tickles

02-21-2013, 01:45 PM

My boy died in December of last year a few days before Christmas due to a Oxy, coke, and Xanax overdose.

02-21-2013, 09:18 PM

them oxy's are no joke

02-21-2013, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by CuddyAbeRo

them oxy's are no joke

xanax either

02-21-2013, 10:18 PM

its all about moderation

02-22-2013, 04:58 AM

Originally Posted by J.BEEZY

xanax either

depends on what u mix it with

now if u eat like 10 bars at a time thats another story

02-22-2013, 05:18 AM

[pic] don't take them.

02-22-2013, 06:26 AM

yeah mostly its the combos

speedballin aint good

i know cpl folks died from fenatyl patches tho not rly pills

02-22-2013, 07:39 AM

ate 2 codeine pills last nite and washed em down with ice house [pic]

02-22-2013, 10:11 AM

The number of physicians in the U.S. is

700,000.

Accidental [rip]s caused by Physicians

per year are

120,000.

Accidental [rip]s per physician is

0.171

Statistics courtesy of U.S. Dept. of

Health and Human Services.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Now think about this:

Guns

The number of gun owners in the U.S.

is

80,000,000.

(Yes, that's 80 million)

The number of accidental gun [rip]s

per year, all age groups,

is

1,500.

The number of accidental [rip]s

per gun owner

is

.0000188

Statistics courtesy of FBI

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So, statistically, doctors are approximately

9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Remember, 'Guns don't k#ll people, doctors do.'

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Fact: Not everyone has a Gun - BUT

Almost everyone has at least one doctor.

This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be k#lled by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!

02-22-2013, 12:10 PM

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02-22-2013, 12:24 PM

seeing these numbers kinda hits a soft spot for me. I was addicted to oxy for about 3 years fresh out of highschool. I know a handful of people who OD'd and alot of people still using. Ive have not painkillers in 2 1/2 years now tho and quitting is one of the hardest things anyone can go through. To any one who says its all about moderation I just want to tell you to please stop while you are ahead. Moderation only leads you down a path you really do not want to go down.

02-22-2013, 01:14 PM

Originally Posted by s34ny

yeah mostly its the combos

speedballin aint good

i know cpl folks died from fenatyl patches tho not rly pills

yup.............that !!s no joke

before they turned o.c.'s into o.p.'s there was always a fair amount of [rip]s from pills........

02-22-2013, 03:10 PM

my grandma's heart stopped a couple years back at the hospital due to the nurses overdosing her on morphene.

02-22-2013, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by Trilluminati GA

ate 2 codeine pills last nite and washed em down with ice house [pic]

holy !!!!! you animal. show em how its done. go big or go home right????? [pic]

02-22-2013, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by ItAlY2BkLyN

The number of physicians in the U.S. is
700,000.
Accidental [rip]s caused by Physicians per year are
120,000.
Accidental [rip]s per physician is
0.171

Now think about this:
The number of gun owners in the U.S. is
80,000,000.
(Yes, that's 80 million)

The number of accidental gun [rip]s
per year, all age groups is
1,500.

The number of accidental [rip]s
per gun owner is
.0000188

Statistics courtesy of FBI

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

So, statistically, doctors are approximately
9,000 times more dangerous than gun owners.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Remember, 'Guns don't k#ll people, doctors do.'

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Fact: Not everyone has a Gun - BUT
Almost everyone has at least one doctor.

This means you are over 9,000 times more likely to be k#lled by a doctor as by a gun owner!!!

great stats. [pic][pic]

Originally Posted by bbrossy313

seeing these numbers kinda hits a soft spot for me. I was addicted to oxy for about 3 years fresh out of highschool. I know a handful of people who OD'd and alot of people still using. Ive have not painkillers in 2 1/2 years now tho and quitting is one of the hardest things anyone can go through. To any one who says its all about moderation I just want to tell you to please stop while you are ahead. Moderation only leads you down a path you really do not want to go down.

glad you got off that !! bruh....not good for you....

Originally Posted by Armen87

my grandma's heart stopped a couple years back at the hospital due to the nurses overdosing her on morphene.

hope she got paid

02-22-2013, 11:23 PM

my boy was always trying to bum percocet and vicodin off me but i stopped giving it to him. he was mixing that !! with other drugs.

02-22-2013, 11:30 PM

Originally Posted by SuperSourD

holy !!!!! you animal. show em how its done. go big or go home right????? [pic]

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nah not even braggin homie. I was hooked on hydros/oxy in 07 for a long time (gunshot thru my arm into my chest) and it took me a while to shake it off. I still suffer pain in my arm to this day, some days I pop but not often nor regularly. For some reason I felt the urge to eat 2 codiene pills instead of one. [pic]

02-23-2013, 09:30 AM

This is the result of private companies trying to make money then having drs sling their medicine, pretty bad. Pretty deep if you really do the research on this topic.

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