Stay Tuned | Prescription Drug Abuse | Shocking Statistics

Published July 5, 2013

Stay Tuned | Prescription Drug Abuse | Shocking Statistics – Part 1 of 8.

'Oxyana' maker defends lack of West Virginia fact-checking

Filed under: drug addiction statistics

OCEANA — The director of “Oxyana”, a documentary about drug addiction in the southern West Virginia coalfields, says he didn't try to verify some shocking statistics used in it because he wasn't concerned whether they were accurate. Director Sean …
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CDC Chief: Doctors Prescribe Pain Killers Too Often

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The analysts evaluated the data and discovered that around 50 percent of the deaths were due to prescription drugs. Of these drugs, the main culprit was painkillers that were mostly prescribed after the patients suffered injuries. In recent statistics …
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Drug Abuse-Related Mental Illnesses On the Rise – MOH

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Latest figures available from the Mental Health Department in the Ministry of Health show that there were 440 cases of drug abuse related cases which is 2.8 percent of all mental illness cases observed in 2009, while the number increased in 2010 to 994 …
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