Title: Opioids- A Major Killer<br/>Author: Jon Mark Hirshon<br/><a href='http://umem.org/profiles/faculty/96/'>[Click to email author]</a><hr/><p>
· Opioid deaths, such as from heroin and prescription opioids, are a major problem globally</p>
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· In the U.S., since 1999 overdose deaths from prescription opioids have quadrupled.</p>
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o Almost half of opioid deaths involve a prescription opioid</p>
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· The most common drugs related to prescription opioid deaths are:</p>
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o Methadone</p>
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o Oxycodone</p>
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o Hydrocodone</p>
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https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/overdose.html</p>
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