- Áú¹®³»¿ë - I'm on business money pak number Chronic pain affects nearly 100 million U.S. adults and carries major costs in terms of health care and lost productivity. Initiatives designed to increase patient and provider awareness of pain have come with unintended consequences. Prescription opioid abuse has been increasingly documented in emergency department visits and deaths. "By 2008, the annual number of fatal drug poisonings surpassed those of motor vehicle deaths and overdose deaths attributable to prescription drugs exceeded those of cocaine and heroin combined," Alexander and colleagues write.
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