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Adults over 50 make up half the city’s painkiller addicts

About half of the city’s patients being treated for addiction to opioids are older than 50 — a quadrupling of that population from two decades ago, says a sobering new drug-abuse study. Drawing records from state-licensed drug-treatment programs in the five boroughs, NYU researchers found that in 2012 — the last year of available data...

 

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