CDC notes surge in deaths from drug poisoning – Nurse.com

The number of drug poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 4,000 in 1999 to 14,800 in 2008. Opioid analgesics were involved in more than 40% of all drug poisoning deaths in 2008, up from about 25% in 1999. The death …

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