Prescription opioids responsible for over 60 percent of overdoses








Researchers have found that prescription opioids, including methadone, were involved in 67.8 percent of emergency department visits in 2010 in the U.S., with the highest proportion of opioid overdoses occurring in urban areas, the South and among women.
 

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