CDC: More Americans Dying From Opioid Overdoses.

CDC: More Americans Dying From Opioid Overdoses.

The AP(8/17, Ronayne) reports that according to the CDC, Americans are dying at a rate of 78 per day from opioid overdoses, and that figure continues to rise. The article points out that “overdose deaths from prescription painkillers have quadrupled since 1999, tracking a similar increase in the amount of these drugs being prescribed by doctors.” The article adds that experts are attributing this marked increase in large measure to excessive prescribing of painkillers.