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Painkiller sales soar around US, fuel addiction

Painkiller Addiction

Sales of the nation's two most popular prescription painkillers have exploded in new parts of the country, an Associated Press analysis shows, worrying experts who say the push to relieve patients' suffering is spawning an addiction epidemic....

 

Deaths from painkiller overdose triple in decade

A new government report shows the number of overdose deaths from powerful painkillers have more than tripled over a decade....

 

F.D.A. Pulls Painkiller Due to Risks

The maker of the painkiller Darvon is pulling the drug off the market at the request of public health officials who say the 50-year-old pill causes potentially deadly heart rhythms.

 

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