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1 online resource (4 pages) : digital, PDF file (1.34 MB). |
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CDC Vitalsigns |
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CDC vital signs.
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Title from caption (viewed May 30, 2014). |
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"National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention." |
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"July 2012." |
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"Publication date: 07/03/2012"--Page 4. |
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"Prescription painkiller overdoses were responsible for more than 15,500 deaths in 2009. While all prescription painkillers have contributed to an increase in overdose deaths over the last decade, methadone has played a central role in the epidemic. More than 30% of prescription painkiller deaths involve methadone, even though only 2% of painkiller prescriptions are for this drug. Six times as many people died of methadone overdoses in 2009 than a decade before. Methadone has been used safely and effectively to treat drug addiction for decades. It has been prescribed increasingly as a painkiller because it is a generic drug that can provide long-lasting pain relief. But as methadone's use for pain has increased, so has nonmedical use of the drug and the number of overdoses.." -p. 1 |
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"CS232209-B." |
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Analgesics -- United States -- Statistics.
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Methadone abuse -- United States -- Statistics.
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Methadone abuse -- United States -- Prevention.
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Analgesics, Opioid -- poisoning. |
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Drug Prescriptions. |
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Methadone -- poisoning. |
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Overdose -- mortality -- United States. |
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Pain -- drug therapy. |
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United States. |
Genre/Form |
Patient Education Handout. |
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Popular Works. |
Added Author |
National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (U.S.). Division of Unintentional Injury Prevention, author.
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.), issuing body.
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Note |
Use and abuse of methadone as a painkiller |
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Abuse of methadone as a painkiller |
Gpo Item No. |
0504-W-32 (online) |
Sudoc No. |
HE 20.7062:P 92/2 |
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