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Prescription Painkillers Lack Evidence of Safety and Effectiveness for Long-Term Use

  • February 05, 2015
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  • Prescriptions for opioid painkillers have risen by 300 percent over the past 10 years. As of 2012, 259 million prescriptions for opioids and other narcotic painkillers were written

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