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Prescription drugs sending 700K to ER each year
Posted: 03.22.2010 at 4:55 PM
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The CDC says accidental overdoses of narcotic pain medications kill more people in their 40s than cocaine or heroin 
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The Centers for Disease Control says death rates associated with accidental prescription drug overdoses jumped 63 percent from 1999 to 2004

The Centers for Disease Control says death rates associated with accidental prescription drug overdoses jumped 63 percent from 1999 to 2004.

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