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Prescription opioid misuse is a growing epidemic, with prescribed opioids causing 15,000 deaths annually in the US and widespread addiction.
Highlights the rising issue of prescription opioid misuse and associated mortality in the UK and US.
The UK Home Office has recently highlighted the sharp rise in prescribing, misuse, and deaths linked to tramadol.1 We’ve known tramadol as a problem in general practice for years. And death from prescription drugs is but the merest tip of an addiction iceberg, with at least 800 other misusers for every death, according to US data.2 The UK has been slow to acknowledge misuse of prescription drugs, a problem described as an epidemic in the US, where prescribed opioids kill 15 000 people a year2 and misuse of prescription drugs …
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Des Spence (2013) conducted an editorial in Prescription drug misuse. Prescription opioids (tramadol, co-codamol) was evaluated. Prescription opioid misuse is a growing epidemic, with prescribed opioids causing 15,000 deaths annually in the US and widespread addiction.
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