Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs and Other Interventions to Combat Prescription Opioid Abuse
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has published significant data and trends related to opioid prescription pain relievers (OPR). In 2008, 20,044 deaths were attributed to prescription drug overdose of which 14,800 (73.8%) were due to OPR, an amount greater than the number of overdo...
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
2012
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| Online Access: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556951/ |