Opioids prescribed by doctors led to 92,000 overdoses in ERs in one year
Can you imagine this many OD’s and not one of them being recorded as an attempted SUICIDE .. what are the odds of that ?
From the article:
Study finds that 68% of ER patients who overdosed on opioid drugs took pills prescribed by a doctor
Doesn’t say that the doctor prescribed them for the person that OD’d
A new analysis of 2010 data from hospitals nationwide found that prescription painkillers, known as opioids, were involved in 68% of opioid-related overdoses treated in emergency rooms.
Opiates were involved.. but.. were not the only substance in the pt’s system ?
The crisis had long been blamed on pharmacy robberies, teenage pill poppers and the black market. But a 2012 Los Angeles Times study showed that physicians played an important role in prescription drug overdoses. The Times analysis of 3,733 fatalities found that drugs prescribed by physicians to patients caused or contributed to nearly half the deaths.
MORE THAN HALF of the deaths were caused by ILLEGAL DRUGS.. also they failed to clarify if the meds prescribed.. were for the person that OD’ed on them.
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I left a rehab clinic. They took me off all opioids. Stayed six weeks, two weeks longer than they suggest, to get everything I could out of it. Before my first week home, I overdosed. My fault?? Absolutely NOT!! Doc changed my script from 1/2 mg to 1mg of Clonazapam. I ended up taking 11mg/day!! After the third day, my husband couldn’t wake me up!! Ended up in the ER, and then intensive care because of heart problems. What’s the first thing my primary did?? Took me off of Clonazapam, and put me BACK ON opioids. This of course was many years ago. Nowadays, it would have been an antidepressant!!