People Rarely Die After Using Opioids Prescribed for Them

People Rarely Die After Using Opioids Prescribed for Them https://reason.com/2020/01/23/people-rarely-die-after-using-opioids-prescribed-for-them/ Although prescription pain medication is commonly blamed for the “opioid epidemic,” such drugs play a small and shrinking role in deaths involving this category of psychoactive substances. A recent study of opioid-related deaths in Massachusetts underlines this crucial point, finding that prescription analgesics were detected without heroin or fentanyl […]