Prescription Painkiller Abuse Up

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Prescription Painkiller Abuse Up

July 5, 2010 | ISSUE 46•27

According to a Department of Health and Human Services study, emergency room visits for recreational use of opioid painkillers went up 111 percent from 2004 to 2008. What do you think?

I broke a lot of men's hearts in the mid-2000s."

Gwenn Furnier
Systems Analyst
Not in my household. Here, you take too many opioid painkillers, you lie there until you've learned your lesson."

Rebecca Buxton
Kiln Loader
Used to be you only went to the emergency room after being in a motorcycle accident."

William Bruce
Lens Polisher

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