By Dr. Mercola
By Dr. Mercola
More than 28,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2014 — more deaths than any other year on record, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The number includes deaths from both heroin and prescription opioid pain relievers, but the latter accounted for at least half.1,2 The epidemic, which, by the way, is the CDC’s own term for this increasingly alarming trend, appears to only be getting worse.
Since 1999, opioid overdose deaths quadrupled, as did the amount of prescription opioids sold in the U.S. All of …read more
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