ALJAZAM Fault Lines January 6, 2015
Opioid drugs now kill nearly seventeen thousand americans every year. Thats one overdose death every thirty minutes. The overdose rate which might have been 1 or 2 a month in our Emergency Department is now more like 3 or 4 or 5 if not more than that, in a 24hour period. Thats a massive increase. Massive. Over the past 10 years, weve had more than 125,000 americans lose their lives to painkiller Overdose Deaths. The food and Drug Administration recently approved a powerful new opioid painkiller called zohydro over the objections of its own medical advisors and dozens of lawmakers. I thought we...