Project Medicine Drop PKG

Published October 19, 2013

Project Medicine Drop PKG – Reporter Awilda Quezada takes a look at the effects of prescription drug abuse on families and ways the community can help.

Death From Drugs Like Oxycodone Linked To Disadvantaged Neighborhoods …
Death from analgesic overdose, including the painkillers oxycodone and codeine, is more concentrated in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods with a prevalence of high divorce, single-parent homes than deaths from unintentional causes, according …
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Painkiller Overdoses More Likely In Single-Parent, Divorced Families
Urban areas have long been associated with elevated risks of substance abuse. From 1997 to 2002, the number of overdose deaths involving opioid analgesics increased 97% in urban areas. “Given the increasing rates of analgesic overdose fatalities and …
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