ALJAZAM Fault Lines November 15, 2014
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 had learned our lesson w...