Prescription Painkillers: Two Strategies for Identifying the Problem
For much of the 20th century, opioid painkillers were primarily used to ease chronic cancer pain and relieve acute pain. In the 1990s, new formulations of opioid medications became available, leading to the steeply increased use of opioid painkillers (for example, OxyContin) for chronic pain—and to a steep increase in accidental poisoning deaths. According to […]